We have roared into 2018 — at least as far as the weather is concerned. Massive snowstorms in the Alps, heat in Australia, ice storms in the south of the United States, bombogenesis in the northeast, and the list goes on. Clearly, 2018 has announced herself — time to buckle in. One thing about [...]
I’ve been coming to CES since before The Verge even existed, and in all that time one problem has vexed consumer electronics companies trying to build the smart home. That problem is interoperability. My smart TV, your smart lightbulbs, Samsung’s smart fridge, August’s smart lock, they all [...]
I’ve been watching STEAM and/or STEAM toys with great interest and great skepticism. While many parents and teachers report great success with programming toys like Cleverbot and whatever this thing is, I’ve found that kids (and parents) I know find many STEM toys to be sterile, boring, and [...]
On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island. Cui’s security company, Red Balloon, will spend the next year studying how its Internet of Things threat-scanning tool performs on the [...]
For a species that’s conquered Earth and traveled through space and invented the Slapchop, we humans sure are insecure when it comes to technology. Our greatest fear: the singularity, when the abilities of AI and robots surpass those of humans, growing so advanced that civilization is forced to [...]
Esports giant ESL announced an agreement to bring two of its top competitions—the CS:GO Pro League Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition (with WESA, the World Esports Association) and the ESL One Dota 2 and CS:GO circuit—exclusively to Facebook. The competitions will be streamed [...]
“Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”- Sheryl Sandberg, COO of [...]
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Robots replacing humans on production lines started decades ago, and as robot technology becomes more sophisticated, so they will replace more human jobs. The latest job to go is also one of the more delicate operations humans perform: harvesting tomatoes. Grocery stores and consumers only want to [...]
Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a working prototype, you are probably the smartest guy in the room. Congratulations, you are a [...]