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How Planes Keep Flying After an Engine Catches Fire
It feels like a nightmare scenario for airplane passengers: You take a look out the window in between mini-pretzel bites…
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Boston Dynamics’ Robot Dog Is Now Armed—in the Name of Art
In Spot’s Rampage, the robot roams an art gallery with a paintball gun. Boston Dynamics has racked up hundreds of…
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A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google
For the second time in three months, a prominent woman researcher on ethics in artificial intelligence says Google fired her.…
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The UK Is the Latest Country to Tighten the Screws on Uber
For four years, the employment status of Uber drivers in the United Kingdom has been like a colorful beach ball:…
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Australia Is Fighting a Platform War on the Wrong Battlefield
Hi everyone. This week, I’ve resisted temptation and written about Australia without a single mention of kangaroos, shrimp on the…
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The AI Research Paper Was Real. The ‘Coauthor’ Wasn’t
David Cox, the head of a prestigious artificial intelligence lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was scanning an online computer science bibliography…
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If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building?
Facebook, meanwhile, has been more aggressively planning to let its workers toil from anywhere. In May, after long emphasizing the…
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How Covid Gums Up the Court System
Last August, one of the world’s most infamous sex criminals— Harvey Weinstein—was due to appear virtually in a New York…
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A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes—on Purpose
It took about 50 years for computers to eviscerate humans in the venerable game of chess. A standard smartphone can…
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Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories
Siroker won’t be drilling into skulls to rewire brains. Instead, the plan is to methodically capture and store all sorts…
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