In 2006, Aaron Patzer founded Mint. Patzer had grown up in the city of Evansville, Indiana—a place he described as "small, without much economic opportunity"—but had created a successful business building websites. He kept up the business through college and grad school and invested his profits in stocks and other assets, leading to a minor ...

As sensors connected to artificial intelligence proliferate, machines will see right through our poker face. ...

The home sharing service is adopting a more conciliatory tone with local regulators ahead of an expected initial public offering next year. ...

Jerome Pesenti is encouraged by progress in artificial intelligence, but sees the limits of the current approach to deep learning. ...

Google chief Sundar Pichai is now also the CEO of Alphabet, but Page and Brin aren’t totally out of the picture. ...

Last March, game devs Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott gave a presentation at the Game Developers Conference called "1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality in which they described how their own dissatisfaction with falling revenues from mobile app stores led them to muse about bulk-creating ****** apps and ...

For years, rogue archivist Carl Malamud (previously) has been scanning and posting proprietary elements of the law, such as standard annotations or building and safety codes developed by outside parties and then incorporated into legislation, on the theory that if you are expected to follow the law, you must be able to read, write ...

Google says it's against company policies for advertisers to make false claims, but when it comes to politicians not all lies are created equal.  ...

Reps Anna Eshoo [D-CA] and Zoe Lofgren [D-CA] have introduced HR 4978, the "Online Privacy Act," which is a comprehensive set of federal rules for privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation.

It's a big bill (132 pages!) and even the summary is an intense read, so I've only skimmed it. Based ...

In The Surprising Breadth of Harbingers of Failure (Sci-Hub mirror), a trio of economists and business-school profs build on a 2015 Journal of Marketing Research paper that claimed that some households' purchasing preferences are a reliable indicator of which products will fail -- that is, if households in a certain ZIP code like ...