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Updated 2024-11-21 13:45
US election campaign technology from 2008 to 2018, and beyond
The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next?
Future elections may be swayed by intelligent, weaponized chatbots
The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.
Kenya’s technology evolved. Its political problems stayed the same.
Long before the internet, hate speech flourished in echo chambers of a different kind.
This is what filter bubbles actually look like
Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge.
The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws
vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction.
Who needs democracy when you have data?
Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
Noon in the antilibrary
Science fiction: What happens when fake news is everywhere?
Fake America great again
Inside the race to catch the worryingly real fakes that can be made using artificial intelligence.
The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains
These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing.
Hackers are out to jeopardize your vote
Cyberattacks on the 2016 US election caused states to bolster the defenses of their voting systems. It hasn’t been enough, says the University of Michigan’s Alex Halderman.
The World Economic Forum warns that AI may destabilize the financial system
Increased use of machine learning and cloud services could make the financial world more vulnerable.
How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
Tim Hwang’s FiscalNote is revolutionizing Washington lobbying with big data
FiscalNote takes the intuition out of politics. Does it take the democracy out, too?
AI for cybersecurity is a hot new thing—and a dangerous gamble
Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help guard against cyberattacks, but hackers can foil security algorithms by targeting the data they train on and the warning flags they look for.
A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine-learning code
The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers.
Why security experts hate that “blockchain voting” will be used in the midterm elections
It’s too dangerous to conduct elections over the internet, they say, and West Virginia’s new plan to put votes on a blockchain doesn’t fix that.
US scientist who edited human embryos with CRISPR responds to critics
Can we safely fix the DNA of human embryos in a lab dish?
Magic Leap’s headset is real, but that may not be enough
It’s taken years of work and billions of dollars in venture funding to build a working mixed-reality headset for developers. Now what?
AI can now tell your boss what skills you lack—and how you can get them
Coursera is unveiling a new machine learning tool to show companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes and their level of expertise.
The Defense Department has produced the first tools for catching deepfakes
Fake video clips made with artificial intelligence can also be spotted using AI—but this may be the beginning of an arms race.
Meet the guy with four arms, two of which someone else controls in VR
These robotic limbs could someday help people work together when they’re far apart.
This new blockchain-based betting platform could cause Napster-size legal headaches
Augur lets people bet on events and pays whoever gets it right—so of course they’re wagering on the deaths of Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos.
An AI-driven robot hand spent a hundred years teaching itself to rotate a cube
A reinforcement-learning algorithm allows Dactyl to learn physical tasks by practicing them in a virtual-reality environment.
DARPA has an ambitious $1.5 billion plan to reinvent electronics
The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
The $2.5 trillion reason we can’t rely on batteries to clean up the grid
Fluctuating solar and wind power require lots of energy storage, and lithium-ion batteries seem like the obvious choice—but they are far too expensive to play a major role.
How one climate scientist combats threats and misinformation from chemtrail conspiracists
Harvard geoengineering researcher David Keith explains when to feed the trolls and when not to.
Million-person genetic study finds gene patterns linked to how long people stay in school
Researchers explore genetic “scores” that may predict educational success.
Climate change could drive tens of thousands of additional suicides in North America
Stanford and Berkeley scientists found that suicides, as well as depressive language on Twitter, rise as temperatures do.
One woman’s race to defuse the genetic time bomb in her genes
How DNA sequencing and new genetic drugs raise the chance we can cure any inherited disease.
Don’t hold your breath for allergy-free cats
Gene-editing technology is eyed as the next step in the quest to create cats that don’t make you sneeze.
IBM thinks blockchains can help reduce carbon emissions
It’s turning carbon credits into crypto-tokens—part of a scheme to create a massive marketplace of novel digital assets.
Google wants to make programming quantum computers easier
Its new open-source software will help developers experiment with the machines, including Google’s own super-powerful quantum processor.
How to tell if you’re talking to a bot
The five best ways to detect fake social-media accounts.
This man’s quest to understand memory starts with obsessive bodycam recording and brain-wave tracking
By-products include striking short films that speed up and slow down along in response to body signals.
Forget about VR in the living room; this summer it’s on waterslides and in arcades
VR technology hasn’t been a hit with consumers, so companies are taking it everywhere from specially built arenas to airports.
Meet Oasis Labs, the blockchain startup Silicon Valley is buzzing about
Combining software with something the company calls “trusted hardware” will vastly expand what smart contracts can do.
California’s plan to integrate the West Coast grid is a great idea—that could easily backfire
The state leading the clean-energy charge could wind up importing coal power from Wyoming.
The US may have just pulled even with China in the race to build supercomputing’s next big thing
The two countries are vying to create an exascale computer that could lead to significant advances in many scientific fields.
Bitcoin’s inherent economics could keep it from ever being very important
A new analysis shows how the cost of securing Bitcoin will constrain its growth.
Inside the effort to print lungs and breathe life into them with stem cells
Martine Rothblatt wants to end transplant shortages with 3-D-printed lungs.
35 Innovators Under 35
Better gene editing. Cheaper solar cells. Stretchable electronics. And smarter robots. Meet Jonas Cleveland, CEO of COSY, and the rest of our 2018 list of 35 Innovators Under 35.
Gary Reback: Technology’s trustbuster
Big-money politics is making it harder than ever to tame Big Tech.
Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds
Shared autonomous vehicles could transform American cities built around car ownership.
Confessions of an accidental job destroyer
Behind every piece of automation is a human who made it happen.
Rebuilding Germany’s centuries-old vocational program
The Ausbildung is widely touted as an example other countries should follow. But it’s struggling to keep up with technological change.
Why robots helped Donald Trump win
Toledo has more robots per worker than any other US city. They’re producing a healthy economy—and lots of anxiety.
Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style
A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.
Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style
A Canadian province is giving people money with no strings attached—revealing both the appeal and the limitations of the idea.
It’s time to rein in the data barons
Facebook, Amazon, and Google will resist attempts to restrain their market power. But for the sake of our collective prosperity and our personal privacy, it’s a fight we can’t afford to lose.
Keeping America first in quantum computing means avoiding these five big mistakes
Potential pitfalls include putting the military in charge and spraying too much money around.
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