Tesla Tesla Bets Farm On Neural Network Based Autonomy With Impressive PresentationForbes - Brad TempletonTesla today held an “Autonomy Investor Day” at their HQ in Palo Alto, CA. There, Tesla outlined some of their plans for advanced driver assist and eventual autonomy in Tesla cars. The presentation was
Australian News In the cloud: Why this project planning unicorn is watching Australia closelysmh.com.au - Emma Koehn The platform allows businesses to plan out tasks like marketing campaigns and product launches while keeping each staff member accountable for their …
Airlines "This Conversation Should Terrify You": Viral Thread About Airport Tech Is Creeping Out The Internetiflscience.com - James Felton A conversation between a passenger and an airline has gone viral, largely because people find it intensely creepy. MacKenzie Fegan went to the airport …
Technology Podcast wars: $100 million startup Luminary launches tomorrow without Reply All or The DailyThe Verge - Ashley CarmanSpotify isn’t playing nice It took less than a day for Luminary to become enemy number one of the podcast industry. Last month, on the same day that it unveiled its subscription podcast service, the company
Business How TED (And Its Copycats) Gutted the Market for IdeasBarron's - Nilofer Merchant Text size All of us want to add value. And we also want to be valued. But those of us in the ideas business regularly get asked to add their value for …
The Most Hyped Technology of Every Year From 2000-2018visualcapitalist.com - Nick Routley Visualizing Technology Hype Cycles (2000-2018)Nothing captures our collective imagination quite like emerging technology.In a short amount of time, …
Opinion Think You’re Discreet Online? Think AgainThe New York Times - By ZEYNEP TUFEKCIPeople concerned about privacy often try to be “careful” online. They stay off social media, or if they’re on it, they post cautiously. They don’t share information about their religious beliefs, personal
Technology How much are we sacrificing for automation?Fast CompanyLessons from an Amazon warehouse, and a world where increasingly anything (and anyone) that can be measured, is. It seems that almost every week there is a controversial story (or three) in the news about
Amazon How Amazon's retreat from China marks a global 'rebordering'Axios - Steve LeVine Amazon's decision to all but shut down operations in China is another step in a reorganization of the world into two distinct, digitally driven …
Play buttonDeath Metal AI generates non-stop stream of death metalEngadget - Jon FingasShred guitars (and vocal chords) forever. There's a limit to the volume of death metal humans can reproduce -- their fingers and vocal chords can only handle so much. Thanks to technology, however, you'll
Ro Khanna Capitalism in crisis: U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them richThe Washington Post - By Greg JaffePALO ALTO, Calif. — A perfect California day. The sun was shining, a gentle breeze was blowing and, at a Silicon Valley coffee shop, Rep. Ro Khanna was sitting across from one of his many billionaire discussing
Farming Farms create lots of data, but farmers don't control where it ends up and who can use ittheconversation.com - Leanne Wiseman and Jay Sanderson Most of us are familiar with cases of data being used in ways that go beyond consumer expectations – just think of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica …
Soil To fix the climate, we have to fix our soilFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiDecades of intensive agriculture and deforestation have degraded around half of the world’s soil, which is one of the most effective natural systems for sequestering carbon. Soil scientist Asmeret Asefaw
Design This MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient worldFast Company - Katharine SchwabUsing some clever physics, designers figured out how humans could move 1,000-pound concrete slabs on their own. Today, construction workers rely on cranes to lift the big slabs of concrete and other materials
Employment Most top AI researchers in the U.S. are foreignAxios - Kaveh Waddell The U.S. and China, front runners in the race to lead the world in AI, are playing with different strengths: China has vast amounts of data and money …
Thailand Man's seasteading home violates Thailand's sovereignty, say officialssmh.com.au - Grant Peck "This is ridiculous," he said in an earlier statement posted online. "We lived on a floating house boat for a few weeks and now Thailand wants us …
ByteDance The Kids Use TikTok Now Because Data-Mined Videos Are So Much FunBloomberg Most nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok, the smartphone app of the moment. The platinum blond teenager films herself …
Game of Thrones Who will die in Game of Thrones season 8? Science has the answerWired UK - Will Bedingfield Helen Sloan/HBO Game of Thrones is back. Expect more dragon-duelling, sword-slashing, Cersei-scheming, dead-defeating, breast-bearing, willy-waving, …
Wales Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales wanted to save journalism. He didn'tWired UK - Gian Volpicelli Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg via Getty Images In 2017, Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales – the Wikipedia cofounder whose plaintive face used to haunt the free …
Opinion We Built an ‘Unbelievable’ (but Legal) Facial Recognition MachineThe New York Times What we found shows the technology’s promise — and perils.
Opinion The Instagram Face-LiftThe New York Times - By EVE PEYSERTake a look at the most beautiful of today’s top Instagram influencers and they all look astoundingly the same — their butts, perfect bouncing balloons; the smooth curves of their itty-bitty waists; lips
The Future Watch a pack of SpotMini robot dogs tow a huge truck like it's nothingCNET - Shelby Brown Maybe we should stop kicking them now.
Business Analysis | The new way your boss can tell if you’re about to quit your jobThe Washington Post - By Jena McGregorIBM wants to keep its employees from quitting, and it’s using artificial intelligence to do it. In a recent CNBC interview, chief executive Ginni Rometty said that thanks to AI, the tech and consulting
Jack Ma Is 996 Truly a Blessing? Let's Hear What Richard Liu and Jack Ma Have to Saypandaily.com - Chauncey Jung On April 12, Richard Liu, CEO of JD.com responded to the recent scandal of layoffs, “earthquake” of senior managers and 996 rumors in his Wechat …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoChina Quantity or quality? China’s work culture comes under scrutinyscmp.com Your source for credible news and authoritative insights from Hong Kong, China and the world.
Business The Mistake Companies Make When They Use Data to Plan Diversity EffortsHarvard Business Review - Katie Wullert and Shannon Gilmartin and Caroline SimardIn order to step up diversity efforts, organizations often start with people analytics to pinpoint where to intervene. But as organizations take a data-driven approach to identifying areas of change, encounter
Employment Rigorous new study of employee wellness programs suggests they may not be very effectiveThe Verge - Angela ChenEmployees assigned to receive wellness training didn’t score better on various health measures or spend less on health care A rigorous new study of workplace wellness programs suggests that they may not
Jack Ma Jack Ma quotes on China's 996 work culture is the norm in IndiaQuartz - Niharika SharmaChina’s richest man faced severe backlash this week for praising something that’s almost a way of life in India. On April 14, the Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma wrote a lengthy blog post on the Chinese
Technology Policy The artificial intelligence field is too white and too male, researchers sayThe Verge - Colin LecherA new report explores AI’s ‘diversity crisis’ The artificial intelligence industry is facing a “diversity crisis,” researchers from the AI Now Institute said in a report released today, raising key questions
