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June 12, 2020
Amazon Finally Sees the Problem With Facial Recognition
Kara 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’ Technology
It uses AI and transfers data to an app.
By
Chris Crowley
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July 6, 2018
Don’t Worry, IBM’s AI Debater Can’t Beat Humans … Yet
The AI also wanted to warn us humans about the dangers of mass surveillance.
By
Mack DeGuerin
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July 24, 2017
Sweden Accidentally Leaks the Sensitive Info of Basically All Its Citizens
How do you say “Oops!” in Swedish?
By
Paris Martineau
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Sept. 8, 2016
IBM’s Watson Is Identifying Social-Media Influencers
A depressing use for powerful technology.
By
Brian Feldman
Apr. 4, 2016
The TSA Paid $336,000 for an App That Chooses Between Left and Right
You 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 Capital
Financing déjà vu.
By
Nitasha Tiku
this! is! kind of scary!
Mar. 1, 2011
IBM’s Watson Loses to Congressman, Discovers Love
Rush Holt 2016.
By
Dan Amira
this! is! kind of scary!
Feb. 17, 2011
Once Again, the Robot Takeover Will Begin With Sex Appeal
Watson 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 Chiesi
A “classic tale of desire and betrayal” from, er, ‘Fortune.’
By
Jessica Pressler