Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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We're trapped in one of the fastest transitional moments in history and we're feeling the pain as tens of millions are failing to adapt.
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Om Malik blames the dire state of the West on the people who spent years ringing the alarm bells instead of those who roundly ignored them.
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Facebook can't fix its fake news problem because the damage is already done and mitigating it means jeopardizing its primary draw for users.
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Widespread automation is about to hit the developing world, hard.
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We are not running out of jobs humans can do as computers take on more and more responsibilities. We're just choosing not to create new jobs and educate workers.
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The idea that just giving people more data to make the right choices flies in the face of how humans typically work.
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In most fields, bleeding edge research is conducted in academic labs, not corporate bullpens. In computer science, that's often not the case.
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Self-driving cars won't solve congestion in major cities. They will be the congestion in major cities.
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Marissa Meyer appears to have learned nothing from her tenure at Yahoo and it clearly shows in her latest interview.
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A little coding fun with hash maps and delegates for trivial parallelization...