Talking Trash: Recycling Inches Up, But Problems Remain
With the changes in consumed materials, recycling is running into problems; meanwhile, plastic and overall waste climb.
With the changes in consumed materials, recycling is running into problems; meanwhile, plastic and overall waste climb.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film professional, tells first-hand what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators like Google and Facebook has done to the creative arts, journalism, and democracy.
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
For a computer scientist, Georgetown professor and author Cal Newport is hard to reach via email. But it’s part of his philosophy that focused concentration–so elusive in our overstimulated world–is the key to a better and more rewarding work and personal life.
After a long so-called winter, artificial intelligence has recently made amazing gains. Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, explains why this success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.
When Spotify’s music algorithms lead one writer to a band he can’t stand that he loves, he wonders about who’s programming who.
Gmail offers users canned responses to emails, based on AI interpretations of the contents and the user’s typical writing style. This convenience, unknown to the recipient, comes at a social cost.
The word Luddite has a long history as a derogatory term. But it has little to do with the real history of the Luddites, who seem more relevant than ever.
A White House paper on AI betrays a stunning naivte about potential economic fallout, but few in government are interested in even acknowledging the issue.
Cost pressures are pushing doctors and hospitals to explore automating healthcare in various ways. Results thus far are mixed.