How should society address the scenario where the AI algorithm got it right but from an ethical standpoint, we're uncomfortable with the results? ...

This storm shall pass. However the choices we make now will change our lives forever. ...

Using a mouse or a trackpad for a long period of time is going to give you carpal tunnel or mouse shoulder. Why not invest in gamer-approved peripherals? ...

Government emergency powers change the legal landscape and trigger a surge of resources, but they’re not without complications. ...

A striking overlap exists between the path of today's viral spread, and the path the Black Death followed in the 1300s. ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds, and operates billion-dollar spacecraft. That makes it a target. What the infosec world calls Advanced Persistent Threats — meaning, generally, nation-state adversaries — hover outside its online borders, constantly seeking access to its “ground data systems,” its networks on Earth, which in turn connect to the ground relay stations ...

Facebook’s internal “Supreme Court” can’t set precedents, can’t make decisions about Facebook Dating or Marketplace, and can’t oversee WhatsApp, Oculus, or any messaging feature, according to the bylaws Facebook proposed today for its Oversight Board. It’s designed to provide an independent appeals process for content moderation rulings. But it will only be able to challenge ...

Incubating a startup right in the nest. ...

A strange new sensation has settled across the tech industry, one so foreign, so alien, it’s almost hard to recognize. A sense that some great expectations are being radically revised downwards; that someone has turned down a previously unquenchable money spigot; that unit economics can matter even when you’re in growth mode. Could it be ...

A whole new meaning to open office plans. ...