Are the Amish right about new technology?
Source: The Guardian BY Oliver Burkeman The basic stereotype about the Amish – drivers of horse-drawn buggies, wearers of huge beards – is that they’re stuck in the 18th century: if […]
Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech
Source: The Guardian BY John Naughton Left to right: Sergey Brin of Google, Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Steve Jobs of Apple and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Composite: Joe […]
Sneak peek: D.C.’s huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech — but not a lot of Jesus
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein, Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey October 16 Senior software developer Donnie Richardson does testing in the area where visitors to the Museum of the Bible can write […]
Can we teach robots ethics?
Source: BBC News We are not used to the idea of machines making ethical decisions, but the day when they will routinely do this – by themselves – is fast […]
China congress: How authorities censor your thoughts
Source: BBC News If you control public communication you can control the way people think and how they behave. That’s what Xi Jinping’s government is counting on. And it is […]
Women are more concerned than men about gender discrimination in tech industry
Source: Pew Research Center BY KIM PARKER AND CARY FUNK Women in the U.S. are substantially more likely than men to say gender discrimination is a major problem in the technology industry, according […]
Four-in-ten Americans credit technology with improving life most in the past 50 years
Source: Pew Research Center BY MARK STRAUSS When Americans are asked what has brought the biggest improvement to their lives in the past five decades, they name technology more than any […]
Most Americans would favor policies to limit job and wage losses caused by automation
Source: Pew Research Center BY JOHN GRAMLICH Americans are apprehensive about a future in which machines take on more of the work now done by humans, and most are supportive of […]
Tesla: World’s biggest battery half-built
Source: BBC News Tesla has reached the half-way point in its plan to build the world’s biggest battery, in South Australia. The plan to build the 100MW (129MWh) lithium battery […]
Could wood pulp make cars lighter and more efficient?
Source: BBC News By Virginia Harrison Business reporter, Singapore Car parts of the future could be made out of a surprising material. Wood. Researchers in Japan are working to create […]
How ‘the invisible network’ poses a major security threat
Source: BBC News By Matthew Wall Technology of Business editor 22 September 2017 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionIf a hacker managed to switch off a life-support machine, the results could be […]
In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
Source: The New York Times By KEVIN GRANVILLE and ASHLEY GILBERTSON A young woman, wearing a traditional full-length Amish dress and white bonnet, stepped away from a farmer’s market, opened her palm and […]
Row over AI that ‘identifies gay faces’
Source: BBC News A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT […]
China looks at plans to ban petrol and diesel cars
Source: BBC News China, the world’s biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol cars and vans. The country’s vice minister of industry said […]
XFEL: Brilliant X-ray laser comes online
Source: BBC News By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility, which […]
Researchers Show How Simple Stickers Could Trick Self-Driving Cars
Source: Time BY David Z. Morris Sep 02, 2017 A team of researchers from four American universities has provided a troubling preview of how self-driving cars could be tricked into […]
As Artificial Intelligence Advances, What Are its Religious Implications?
Source: Religion and Politics By Ellen Duffer The concept of artificial intelligence has been fuel for science fiction since at least 1920, when the Czech writer Karel Čapek published R.U.R., his play […]
TEDGlobal: The computer that can smell explosives
Source: BBC News By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter, TEDGlobal Tanzania Image copyrightTEDGLOBALImage captionOshi Agabi envisages airports that will need no visible security system allowing people to just walk on to […]
Is ‘killer robot’ warfare closer than we think?
Source: BBC News More than 100 of the world’s top robotics experts wrote a letter to the United Nations recently calling for a ban on the development of “killer robots” […]
How your digital self could ‘live’ on after you die
Source: BBC News By Suzanne Bearne Technology of Business reporter Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionWhat if you could “talk” digitally to your descendants, not just appear in photo albums? The death […]