We’ve all been hearing doomsday stories on how jobs are being replaced by AI. According to Bloomberg, up… (more…)

A couple and their son found each other after 27 years with the help of facial recognition tech. (more…)

A study by a researcher from Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and University College Dublin’s Complex Software Lab, has resulted in the withdrawal of an 80-million image library, which has, up to now, been used to train Ar... (more…)

A year or so ago, I wrote a piece of fiction called Reccr. Reccr was supposed to be an AI-driven recommendation engine that filtered life around you and used any and all data about you to refine that filter. We already see a rise of that behavior: Faceboo...

Imagine an innovation in pipes. If this innovation were general, something that made all kinds of pipes cheaper to build and maintain, the total benefits could be large, perhaps even comparable to the total amount we spend on pipes today. (Or even much la...