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pivot June 12, 2020

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
the future July 8, 2019

Future Arrives As IBM Unveils Its Portable ‘E-Tongue’ TechnologyIt uses AI and transfers data to an app.

By Chris Crowley
select all July 6, 2018

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
select all July 24, 2017

Sweden Accidentally Leaks the Sensitive Info of Basically All Its CitizensHow do you say “Oops!” in Swedish?

By Paris Martineau
select all Sept. 8, 2016

IBM’s Watson Is Identifying Social-Media InfluencersA depressing use for powerful technology.

By Brian Feldman
Apr. 4, 2016

The TSA Paid $336,000 for an App That Chooses Between Left and RightYou might say the bill was … sky-high.

By Brian Feldman
the future July 17, 2015

Could This Be the End of Passive-Aggressive Emails?A helpful new program lets you “tone check” your writing.

By Erica Schwiegershausen
feature May 20, 2015

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
this! is! kind of scary! May 23, 2011

IBM’s Watson to Use Its Powers for Good?They’re turning him into your new robot doctor.

By Dan Amira
party like it’s 1999 Mar. 21, 2011

Corporations Take a Page From Dot-Com Bubble, Get Back Into Venture CapitalFinancing déjà vu.

By Nitasha Tiku
this! is! kind of scary! Mar. 1, 2011

IBM’s Watson Loses to Congressman, Discovers LoveRush Holt 2016.

By Dan Amira
this! is! kind of scary! Feb. 17, 2011

Once Again, the Robot Takeover Will Begin With Sex AppealWatson knows how to win us over.

By Nitasha Tiku
this! … is! … kind of scary! Jan. 13, 2011

Robot Apocalypse Draws Nearer With IBM’s Jeopardy! Victory“Watson” defeated two very smart human people today.

By Dan Amira
beach reading July 7, 2010

Trading Inside Information Was ‘Like an Orgasm’ for Danielle ChiesiA “classic tale of desire and betrayal” from, er, ‘Fortune.’

By Jessica Pressler