A new algorithm called BigGAN creates detailed photos from scratch, representing a leap forward for AI. But it may come at a steep price. | Continue reading
Researchers were able to attack a common speech recognition system using voice commands hidden in other audio recordings. | Continue reading
A new video shows progress on Mjøstårnet, a project that aims to become the tallest timber building in the world. | Continue reading
With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google. | Continue reading
With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google. | Continue reading
Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him? | Continue reading
Phone numbers uploaded by users for security purposes or from others’ contact lists could be used to target ads, in a possible violation of EU privacy law. | Continue reading
While other software giants are simplifying their branding, Mailchimp is keeping it quirky. | Continue reading
Two words: Hoverboard. Skates. | Continue reading
Jen Fitzpatrick started out in Google’s first class of interns in 1999. She now runs one of the company’s most important businesses. And along the way, she saw–and shaped–a lot of history. | Continue reading
This week, the UN begins a conference to start the long-overdue discussion on updating the 1967 Outer Space Treaty for a cosmos that has gotten a lot more complicated. | Continue reading
Unity’s AI boss Danny Lange explains how the Google sibling will use reinforcement learning and virtual worlds to “evolve” smarter algorithms. | Continue reading
The Google executive tweeted that he wanted to find a “unicorn for the middle class.” People reminded him one already exists. | Continue reading
Smart Design’s Davin Stowell shares the origin story of the OXO Swivel, one of the great icons of 20th-century industrial design. | Continue reading
Yet another reason to switch to Firefox. | Continue reading
Oregon’s ambitious project to bring the reusable bottle back is stirring interest across the country–and, in this case, a monopoly could be a good thing. | Continue reading
Microsoft let me sit in on the rehearsal for its futuristic “meetings of the future” demo in Orlando. Here’s what I learned. | Continue reading
To get enough good data to train disease-hunting AI—and without violating patient privacy—scientists are turning to the AI techniques behind deepfakes. | Continue reading
In 1993, the atmospheric CD-ROM game became a beloved megahit–but not everybody was happy with its influence on the game industry. | Continue reading
Wireless ISPs like Common Networks and Starry could save you from Comcast and AT&T–but not anytime soon. | Continue reading
Work & Co’s new Portland, Oregon, office is proof that not all open plan offices are miserable hellholes. | Continue reading
It’s now started a nonprofit to help spread its simple solution: hire people who’ve lost their jobs and homes to be property managers–and have them live for cheap on-site. | Continue reading
The Zeigarnik effect can do something stunning when we scatter our attention and let our mind wander. | Continue reading
Unlike smart screens from Google and Amazon, Facebook’s device will ID users and follow them around the room. | Continue reading
The FDA says it may accelerate review of e-cig features like geofencing and biometrics that would make the devices hard for kids to vape. | Continue reading
Not too long ago, personal assistants like Alexa were pretty much confined to smart speakers. That’s changing fast. | Continue reading
Changes in policies have affected ad blockers, antivirus apps, and an anti-distraction tool, but Apple hasn’t spoken publicly about which apps are permitted. | Continue reading
Citizen Lab found traces of the “lawful intercept” software in the U.S., Canada, and 43 other countries. | Continue reading
Researchers discover that you can do the best work of your professional life at any moment. | Continue reading
Wages increased by just 2.1%. Adjusted for inflation, that’s essentially flat. | Continue reading
Humans’ fascination with robots follows a long tradition of connecting emotionally to inanimate objects. | Continue reading
More trees, please. | Continue reading
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera. | Continue reading
The furniture company would like you to walk or bike to its stores and then have your furniture delivered by a clean Ikea vehicle. | Continue reading
With her venture firm, Backstage Capital, and a new $36 million fund for black female founders, Arlan Hamilton is changing entrepreneurship in the U.S. | Continue reading
Less than three years after rebranding, Uber has a new logo and typeface called Uber Move that’s designed to evoke safety and accessibility–not masculine bravado. | Continue reading
Microscope-equipped iPods and a NASA-funded app allow volunteers to assist in warning beachgoers, tourists, and researchers of harmful algae blooms. | Continue reading
A new legal complaint argues that personal data is being dispersed across wide networks of ad providers in violation of Europe’s privacy regulation. | Continue reading
Now with extra cognitive load! | Continue reading
The designers behind Are.na explain the thinking that led to their nascent social platform, winner of the 2018 Innovation By Design General Excellence award. | Continue reading
Four years ago, Google took a fresh look at email. With Gmail looking more and more like Inbox, it’s declaring “mission accomplished.” | Continue reading
In “Gradient Descent,” now on view at Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi, artists become one with machines—and the results are stunning. | Continue reading
Through its multiple partnerships with EV startups, the company is precipitating a sustainable transformation in the delivery industry. | Continue reading
Moritz Simon Geist sees his “Sonic Robots” not simply as an end in themselves, but a way to make new music and change how listeners engage with it. | Continue reading
Undersea internet cables are sensitive at the coastlines, and as our study found, cables for New York and New Jersey are particularly at risk. | Continue reading
Lighthouse, U.S. winner of the James Dyson Award, looks like a badminton birdie and detects the suction of water leaving pipes–which is a lot of water that we could put to better use. | Continue reading
Whole Foods employees are not happy with the new working conditions under Amazon. | Continue reading
A sweeping report, the product of two years of work by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, says paper ballots are essential. | Continue reading