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Riot is being pitched as a digital, hyper-aware spy. It's nothing more than a simple data aggregator from public social media profiles.
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Web 2.0 was all about sharing and networking. Web 3.0 is emphasizing securing your data from all the people with whom you shared and networked.
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If you're a Silicon Valley founder without a new idea, you can always just steal and existing one and paper over it with buzzwords, as David Gelernter demonstrates...
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If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...
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Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.
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If our grid is ever brought down by a cyberattack, the greatest contributing factor will be the carelessness and technical illiteracy of front line utility workers.
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No, the tech industry isn't especially terrible at dealing with mental illness. No industry really knows how to deal with clinically depressed workers.
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Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.
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The march of automation is imminent. How we plan for it is crucial for the future of the global economy.
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Study on the failures of telecommuting shows that many employers don't understand telecommuting and hence, neither do their workers.
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Charles Seife wants his fusion reactor and he wants it now, dammit, or no funding for you.
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Military blogger invokes theoretical computer science in a post about testing code for fighter jets and gets the fundamentals wrong.
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A self-described Anonymous hacker general describes a world right out of a spy movie playing only in his own head.
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Bureaucrats keep thinking about how to tame the internet, but the internet's very nature makes it trivial to resist their efforts.
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Could alien AI be the dominant life form in the universe instead of its organic creators?
