AI will blur the line between online and offline retail. (more…)

Scientists used computer algorithms to "evolve" an organism that's made of 100% frog DNA — but it isn't a frog. (more…)

Thanks to complaints from Uber drivers, who were beginning to suspect that the ridesharing company was charging customers more with "upfront pricing" but not paying drivers more in turn, on Friday Uber admitted in a Bloomberg report to using AI to find t... (more…)

Summary: This short post does not talk about autonomous vehicles. It talks about a new paper describing new ways in which complex socio-technical systems could go bad. I then talk about the verific… (more…)

From the Australian government’s new “data-driven profiling” trial for drug testing welfare recipients, to US law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology and the deployment of proprietary… (more…)