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  1. pivot
    Amazon Finally Sees the Problem With Facial RecognitionKara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss big tech’s recent turn away from facial recognition and the racial-bias problems with the technology.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  2. the future
    Future Arrives As IBM Unveils Its Portable ‘E-Tongue’ TechnologyIt uses AI and transfers data to an app.
    By Chris Crowley
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    Don’t Worry, IBM’s AI Debater Can’t Beat Humans … YetThe AI also wanted to warn us humans about the dangers of mass surveillance.
    By Mack DeGuerin
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    Sweden Accidentally Leaks the Sensitive Info of Basically All Its CitizensHow do you say “Oops!” in Swedish?
    By Paris Martineau
  5. select all
    IBM’s Watson Is Identifying Social-Media InfluencersA depressing use for powerful technology.
    By Brian Feldman
  8. The TSA Paid $336,000 for an App That Chooses Between Left and RightYou might say the bill was … sky-high.
    By Brian Feldman
  9. the future
    Could This Be the End of Passive-Aggressive Emails?A helpful new program lets you “tone check” your writing.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  10. feature
    What Happens When Watson the Jeopardy! Robot Grows Up?It was just 4 years old when it beat the show’s best human contestants. As it goes out into the world, how afraid of it should we be?
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  11. this! is! kind of scary!
    IBM’s Watson to Use Its Powers for Good?They’re turning him into your new robot doctor.
    By Dan Amira
  12. party like it's 1999
    Corporations Take a Page From Dot-Com Bubble, Get Back Into Venture CapitalFinancing déjà vu.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  15. this! is! kind of scary!
    IBM’s Watson Loses to Congressman, Discovers LoveRush Holt 2016.
    By Dan Amira
  16. this! is! kind of scary!
    Once Again, the Robot Takeover Will Begin With Sex AppealWatson knows how to win us over.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  17. this! ... is! ... kind of scary!
    Robot Apocalypse Draws Nearer With IBM’s Jeopardy! Victory“Watson” defeated two very smart human people today.
    By Dan Amira
  18. beach reading
    Trading Inside Information Was ‘Like an Orgasm’ for Danielle ChiesiA “classic tale of desire and betrayal” from, er, ‘Fortune.’
    By Jessica Pressler