Picture this: It’s 11 p.m. and you and your friends are hungry for McDonald’s. When you pull up to the drive-thru, instead of a human voice over the intercom, you hear a robot asking what you’d like to order. A company called Clinc is working to make this hypothetical situation a reality. Four University of […]
If you thought you couldn’t dislike or distrust the Federal Communication Commission any more, think again. On Tuesday, four members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to demand an explanation as to the agency’s latest slip-up. In case you haven’t heard, allow me to fill you […]
We may be advancing into an age of prevalent artificial intelligence, but humans have been dreaming about the possibilities of AI for far longer. This is evidenced by AI’s first appearance in film in 1927, before movies even had sound. The relationship between humans and AI in the movies is often complicated, much like it […]
There have been people willing to predict the future of technology ever since the first technologies were developed. Since the creation of computers, however, we’ve seen an explosion in both the pace of innovation and the volume of prognostication on all sorts of technology trends. We think there’s a lot to be learned from some […]
Fake news isn’t just annoying. It can also have tragic, and sometimes deadly, consequences. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has contributed to the chaos that’s spread across 10 Indian states since May, which is when rumors about child abductions and child traffickers began to circulate on the messaging app via a falsified video. Since then, about a dozen […]
Oracle, the second-largest business software company in the world that’s best known for its cloud platform offerings, announced the launch of a brand-new “Internet Intelligence Map” last Wednesday. The map service “will help to democratize Internet analysis by exposing some of our internal capabilities to the general public in a single tool,” said Doug Madory, […]