Construction sites are vast jigsaws of people and parts that must be pieced together just so at just the right times. As projects get larger, mistakes and delays get more expensive. The consultancy Mckinsey estimates that on-site mismanagement costs the construction industry $1.6 trillion a year. But typically you might only have five managers overseeing […]
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
Machine learning typically requires tons of examples. To get an AI model to recognize a horse, you need to show it thousands of images of horses. This is what makes the technology computationally expensive—and very different from human learning. A child often needs to see just a few examples of an object, or even only […]
Facebook and Twitter’s no-win situation over Biden
After months of experts expecting another hack-and-leak operation in the lead up to Election Day, a strange story appeared in the New York Post on Wednesday morning. It claimed to maybe contain emails belonging to Joe Biden’s son Hunter, that could possibly indicate that Hunter introduced his father, then Vice President, to a Ukrainian energy executive. Despite a headline claiming […]
Congress was warned over QAnon. Hours later, Trump boosted it.
The news: In a 90-minute virtual US Congressional hearing hosted by the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, representatives took stock of the state of misinformation in America and sought advice from some of the leading experts in the field. What they heard were urgent, alarming warnings about the state of truth, political fragmentation and spread […]
Cruise Will Soon Hit San Francisco With No Hands on the Wheel
The GM subsidiary wins approval from California to offer driverless passenger service. Powered by WPeMatico
Judge Says No to Putting ‘Fortnite’ Back on Apple’s App Store
The ruling means that Epic Games’ massively popular title will remain off iOS devices while Epic’s suit against Apple moves to trial. Powered by WPeMatico
How officials are protecting the election from ransomware hackers
Hackers played a significant role in the 2016 election, when the Russian government hacked into the Democratic campaign and ran an information operation that dominated national headlines. American law enforcement, intelligence services, and even Republican lawmakers have concluded, repeatedly, that Moscow sought to interfere with the election in favor of Donald Trump.Meanwhile, in the last […]
Next-Gen Gaming Is an Environmental Nightmare
Console waste plus energy-hungry cloud gaming equals the worst of both worlds for sustainability. Powered by WPeMatico
Podcast: How democracies can reclaim digital power
Technology companies provide much of the critical infrastructure of the modern state and develop products that affect fundamental rights. Search and social media companies, for example, have set de facto norms on privacy, while facial recognition and predictive policing software used by law enforcement agencies can contain racial bias. In this episode of Deep Tech, […]
How to pitch and write an opinion piece for MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review is about the biggest discoveries and ideas in emerging technology. We’re keen to hear from people with interesting, provocative, and well-argued opinions on technology and where it’s taking us. In most cases, opinion pieces should be tied either to a recent news event (and by “recent” we usually mean “in the past […]