The smart city is a perpetually unrealized utopia
In 1959, in a short essay called “The Great Game to Come,” a little-known Dutch…
Yann LeCun has a bold new vision for the future of AI
Around a year and a half ago, Yann LeCun realized he had it wrong. LeCun,…
The Download: Yann LeCun’s AI vision, and smart cities’ unfulfilled promises
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Maximize business value with data-driven strategies
Every company is collecting data, whether it’s consumer buying habits, demographic data from third-party sources…
The Download: China’s possible surveillance sanctions, and hacking locusts
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The future of urban housing is energy-efficient refrigerators
The scars and pockmarks of the aging apartments and housing units under the purview of…
The Download: Retrofitting cities, and Alexa mimics the dead
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Scientists hacked a locust’s brain to sniff out human cancer
Cyborg locust brains can help spot the telltale signs of human cancer in the lab,…
The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of
You may never have heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve already been captured by…
Energy-hungry data centers are quietly moving into cities
In 1930, the telegraph giant Western Union put the finishing touches on its new crown…