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THE NERD-KING VIBES OF JENSEN HUANG
The Nvidia CEO turned a graphics-card company into a trillion-dollar AI behemoth. Now he wants to transform the rest of the world-health care, robotics, autonomous driving, the works.
10+ min |
May - June 2024
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IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT
Mock it all you want-but it runs the world. Possibly even literally.
5 min |
March - April 2024
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EVERY WOMAN IS AN ISLAND
Matriarchy, money, and a modern mariner named Marina.
5 min |
March - April 2024
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THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND
TWO NATIONS. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. AND THE URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF SPACE RIGHT NOW.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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LOVE, DEMENTIA AND ROBOTICS
When my parents got sick, I turned to a NEW GENERATION of roboticists and their GLOWING, TALKING, WARMHEARTED creations.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Three decades after a devastating nuclear war between the US and China, a divided America faces a new threat to its very DNA. An excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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TAIL AS OLD AS TIME
Was Bobi the world's longest-lived dogor just another casualty of Big Kibble?
5 min |
March - April 2024
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THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew
The CEO of the world's most influential social media company likes tacos, Sheryl Crow, and Diablo IV. Is he for real-ora really good politician?
10+ min |
March - April 2024
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The Revolutionary Absurdity of Boots Riley
The scene is straight out of Boots Riley's madcap moviemaking handbook
10+ min |
September 2023
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A. I. Goes to War
Ships without crews. Autonomous drone swarms. A small U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and Artificial Intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea
10+ min |
September 2023
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The Fractal Immortality of Grimes
I thought my interview with Grimes-the mysterious techno artist, fan of all nerddom, and the deepest of insiders in Elon Musk's world-would be one-on-one. Instead it wound up as a roundtable discussion. Turns out there are multiple personas embedded in the surprisingly haimish human who sat under a tree with me and spent the waning hours of an afternoon in conversation. There was Claire Boucher, the given name of a Vancouver kid obsessed with video games and devoted to provoking adults with misbehavior and the embrace of taboo subjects. There was Grimes, the self-invented, scrappy DIY musician and provocateur who weaves sci-fi into her work and released what Pitchfork judged to be the second-best song of the 2010s. And there was her preferred nomenclature, "c," invoking the speed of light
10+ min |
September 2023
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A.I. Is a Fiction
Stop freaking out when chatbots say they're in love or make disturbing threats. Just treat them like Pinocchio.
6 min |
September 2023
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FRAUD TRACKER
With her blog Web3 Is Going Just Great, software engineer Molly White rains on the crypto parade. She doesn't feel great about it
2 min |
September 2023
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SAFETY FIRST
Fears that artificial intelligence might wipe us out have fueled the rise of protest groups like Pause Al. Their warnings are far-fetched, but not that far-fetched
5 min |
September 2023
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It's batch vs. loopand we really need them to reconcile
4 min |
September 2023
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BRING THE NOISE
A vast array of gadgets make it easy to blot out sonic intrusions-maybe a little too easy
5 min |
September 2023
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THE DEFECTOR
Doug Rushkoff was one of tech's founding optimists. Now he's renouncing the digital revolution. He says it's the only human option.
10+ min |
September 2023
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MIND WIDE OPEN
Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way to help grownups learn like littles and heal from stroke and trauma. Step one: Take psychedelics.
10+ min |
September 2023
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Watch This Space
French satellite giant Eutelsat is taking on Elon Musk's Starlink-while navigating Russia's war in Ukraine, Brexit politics, and Iranian jamming attacks
3 min |
July - August 2023
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Christopher Bouzy – "Building a Platform Like Twitter is Not Difficult"
When Elon Musk's reign of toxic chaos began, Christopher Bouzy didn't just go looking for a rival place to post. He joined the crowded race to create one. (It got difficult.)
10+ min |
July - August 2023
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SONIC BOOM
With hundreds of thousands of podcasts competing for listeners, hosts are using IRL events and other strategies to make their shows more of an \"experience.\" Fans dig it
4 min |
July - August 2023
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CROWDED HOUSE
Startups are buying properties and wooing first-time real estate investors to purchase shares. The scheme could spell trouble for both renters and aspiring homeowners
5 min |
July - August 2023
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THE THREE MOUNDS AT RED CLOUD
How much truth and healing can forensic technology really bring? On the sites of Native American boarding schools, Marsha Small has made it her life's mission to find out
10+ min |
July - August 2023
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THE CASE FOR SOFTWARE CRITICISM
Software may be the defining cultural artifact of our age. It's time to build a culture of critical analysis around it
5 min |
July - August 2023
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THE GENERATIVE HUSTLE OF SATYA NADELLA
Microsoft's leader is betting everything on a future drenched in Al-even if it's the last thing invented by humankind
10+ min |
July - August 2023
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THE WITCHY AMBITION OF SIMA SISTANI
WeightWatchers' CEO was tasked with helping her company catch up in the digital age. Now she's scrambling to keep it relevant in the Ozempic age
10+ min |
July - August 2023
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THE UNPARALLELED SQUARENESS OF PETE BUTTIGIEG
Sure, the US secretary of transportation has thoughts on building bridges. But infrastructure occupies just a sliver of his voluminous mind
10+ min |
July - August 2023
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THE APOCALYPTIC OPTIMISM OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
The director says his new biopic, Oppenheimer, might just terrify you. At the very least, it'll force you to ask questions about history, fear, technology-all of it
10+ min |
July - August 2023
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Reality TV Saved Me
One thing I was never told about reality TV-and I'm willing to bet you weren't either-is that it can heal. Nobody tells you it's a curative medium.
10+ min |
June 2023
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Remote Workers of the World Unite
Zoom did not set us free. But a bit of solidarity can help remote work live up to its promise.
5 min |