Business, Spoken

After nominating Donald Trump, the Republican party was always going to face a reckoning. But, no matter who won, that reckoning was supposed to happen after Election Day. Well, it's come early. And it's unfolding in real-time on Twitter. Less than a month before polls open, the GOP nominee is in open political warfare with his party. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Yes, tonight's vice presidential debate sounds about as rousing as a lukewarm cup of Sleepytime tea. Mike Pence and Tim Kaine aren't known for their colorful personalities, or known that much at all. (One recent poll found that more than 40 percent of Americans can't even name either vice presidential candidate). And why should anyone care? Vice presidents don't have that much power anyway, right? But the next vice president might. If Trump wins, Pence might end up running the show. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

When the doors to Code Next opened in Oakland today, Errol King knew the hard work of launching a community computer lab was a prelude to a far greater challenge. Google launched the lab in one of the nation's most diverse cities to introduce black and Latino students to coding and help reverse the tech sector's persistent lack of diversity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Artificial intelligence can do remarkable things, like recognize faces on social networks, instantly translate speech from one language to another, and identify commands barked into a smartphone. But it also can do stupid things, like label an African-American couple "gorillas." The artificial intelligence underpinning Google Photos did just that last year. The platform uses deep neural networks to identify images in your photo collection. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google Fiber wants a better way of beaming the Internet into apartment buildings. On Friday, the company filed a document with the Federal Communications Commission arguing that the agency should ease access to a chunk of wireless spectrum that could serve the ambitions of Google Fiber, the company's ultra-high-speed Internet service. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Over the next decade, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will invest $3 billion in a sweeping effort to cure all diseases in the lifetime of today's children. "We are at the limit of our ability to alleviate suffering," Chan, a pediatrician, said this morning at an event in San Francisco. "We want to push back at that boundary. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week, Google retooled Google Apps for Work, signaling the company's ever-deepening interest in the enterprise market. It makes sense: the opportunities for growth are enormous, as is the competition. Apple continues to leverage its partnership with IBM to muscle its way in. Facebook will reportedly soon launch its business-focused Facebook at Work. And Microsoft still reigns, thanks to its entrenched Office apps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Let's face it: artificial intelligence is scary. After decades of dystopian science fiction novels and movies where sentient machines end up turning on humanity, we can't help but worry as real world AI continues to improve at such a rapid rate. Sure, that danger is probably decades away if it's even a real danger at all. But there are many more immediate concerns. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you're a candidate spouting conspiracy theories from the stump after the first presidential debate, the��odds��are you didn't win. That's what Donald Trump did Thursday��when he offered���from prepared remarks, no less���the claim that Google is manipulating search results to suppress bad news about Hillary Clinton. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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