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Jun 22, 2017 • 10min
WoeBot, The Chatbot Therapist, Will See You Now
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Jun 21, 2017 • 1min
Sci-Fi TV Doesn't Have to Be 'Prestige'—It Can Just Be Fun
You live, it’s true, in a Golden Age of Television, and at least some of that gold comes in the form of lucky coins from leprechauns that reanimate unfaithful dead spouses. Which is to say, some of the most premium-est of premium TV right now is genre—science fiction and fantasy. It’s American Gods, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Westworld, The Leftovers.
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Jun 21, 2017 • 20min
What's Wrong with Apple's New Headquarters
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Jun 20, 2017 • 7min
IBM's Silicon Nanosheets Breakthrough Will Help Push Moore's Law Forward
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Jun 16, 2017 • 23min
Scientist Screwed Up? Send 'Em to Researcher Rehab
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Jun 15, 2017 • 9min
Review: Microsoft Surface Laptop
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop says nothing about the future of technology. The team in Redmond didn’t concern itself with the way things will be in 2025—which ports users will want, what kind of device they’ll use, how they’ll feel about bezels. Instead, Microsoft built a laptop optimized for 2017. Contrast that approach with Apple’sMacBooks. To trim every millimeter from its laptops, Apple invented a shallower keyboard.
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Jun 14, 2017 • 6min
Trump’s Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment
President Trump's irate and irrational tweets have already gotten him in plenty of trouble, and will, no doubt, continue to be an issue as he pushes for approval of his controversial travel ban before the Supreme Court. Now, free speech advocates are condemning Trump not just for what he's saying on the platform, but for what he's preventing his constituents from saying to him.
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Jun 13, 2017 • 7min
Apple Just Joined Tech’s Great Race to Democratize AI
Apple’s iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company’s World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short few minutes in which software chief Craig Federighi casually launched Apple into one of the tech industry’s fiercest competitions– the contest to help developers build the next generation of AI-powered applications.
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Jun 12, 2017 • 8min
The End of Net Neutrality Could Shackle the Internet of Things
Net neutrality isn’t the simplest concept to grasp. Explaining it works best via example: Net neutrality means, say, that internet providers like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon, which also have their own television and streaming video services, can’t create “slow lanes” for competing services. They can’t gum up traffic from sites such as Netflix and Dish’s SlingTV in favor of their own. But net neutrality doesn’t just cover streaming video.
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Jun 9, 2017 • 10min
In a Fake Fact Era, Schools Teach the ABCs of News Literacy
Fourteen-year-old Isabel Catalan stares intently at her laptop as she walks me through a recent assignment one sunny morning a few weeks before summer vacation. The studious eighth grader and I are sitting in a tiny, colorful classroom at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, a small private elementary school in the tree-lined Philadelphia suburbs, which also happens to be my alma mater. In most ways, Norwood feels a lot like I left it nearly 20 years ago.
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