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How to fine-tune AI for prosperity

Google’s James Manyika says AI’s impact on the economy is potentially huge but will depend on how quickly business users adopt and deploy the technology.ARNO MIKKOR/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The call for policies is... Read more »

Why you’re about to see a lot more drones in the sky

Lately, that’s been changing. The agency recently granted Amazon’s Prime Air program approval to fly drones beyond the visual line of sight from its pilots in parts of Texas. The FAA has... Read more »

The rise of the data platform for hybrid cloud

Finding a way to unify this disparate data is essential. In doing so, organizations must balance the explosive growth of enterprise data; the need for an on-premises, cloud-like consumption model to mitigate... Read more »

The Download: preserving our digital lives, and X exits Brazil

There is a photo of my daughter that I love. She is sitting, smiling, in our old back garden, chubby hands grabbing at the cool grass. It was taken on a digital... Read more »

The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age

Scott now works as “free-range archivist and software curator” with the Internet Archive, an online library started in 1996 by the internet pioneer Brewster Kahle to save and store information that would... Read more »

How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm

“Spotify’s music database has a very rich set of various parameters, markup, and categories to classify music in a very detailed way. This is simply not exposed in the official app,” he... Read more »

The Download: what tomorrow holds for today’s babies, and replacing the brain

Drones have been a mainstay technology among militaries, hobbyists, and first responders alike for more than a decade. No longer limited to small quadcopters with insufficient battery life, drones are aiding search... Read more »

Escaping Spotify’s algorithm

“Spotify’s music database has a very rich set of various parameters, markup, and categories to classify music in a very detailed way. This is simply not exposed in the official app,” he... Read more »

What’s next for drones

These developments raise a number of questions: Are drones safe enough to be flown in dense neighborhoods and cities? Is it a violation of people’s privacy for police to fly drones overhead... Read more »

This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little

Hébert declined to describe the session, which he said was not recorded “out of respect for those who preferred discretion.” But he’s in favor of growing non-sentient human bodies. “I am in... Read more »