The Death of the Minivan
It was a perfect vehicle.
Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and other tech billionaires, many of whom are part of the “PayPal Mafia,” are openly brawling with one another over politics as tensions rise.
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
Humane, a company started by two former Apple employees, says its new artificial intelligence pin can stop all the scrolling. Can it live up to the hype?
Dr Geoffrey Hinton has been inundated with requests to talk after quitting Google to warn about risk of digital intelligence
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.
A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.
Is the ping of a text stealing our focus or do we just lack willpower? And could mindless scrolling ever be good for our brains? Elle Hunt unpacks some surprising truths
The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.
As the global chip shortage continues, we take an inside look at how semiconductors are fabricated.
A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?
Supply is low, demand is high—but that alone cannot explain the weird indignity of renting a vehicle.
Amelia Whelan used social media as an accelerant for her sales community. Then things blew up.
DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design.
This is the way colonization starts: not with comfy habitats and astronauts, but with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes.
Deep learning algorithms are prone to a previously unknown problem, say a team of computer scientists at Google.
Ultranauts has been developing creative ways to hire, manage and motivate a far-flung and diverse work force for seven years.
The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light.
Everything I learned to become a senior software engineer. From good skills to have, to dealing with difficult engineering problems.
Hanging out on Discord with today’s teen-idol ticket scalpers—average guys, no bots​​
I sat next to a senior software engineer for a year. Here’s what I learnt.
“I honestly just wanted to know why the F train didn’t have clocks. I never expected it to be so complicated.”
At Modern Elder Academy, on the Baja coast, guests share anxieties about ageism and obsolescence.
What do you do when a new feature in a competitor's smartphone app looks a lot like the defining feature of your app? What can you do? That’s the position San Francisco developer Eric Wolfe has found himself in the past few weeks after social fitness giant Strava recently rolled out its Route Builder for Mobile. As
Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing.