
Stop Doing Companies’ Digital Busywork for Free
Consumer technologies—whether user reviews and recommendations, social media or health care portals—involve logistical effort that means more administrative work at home.

Stop Doing Companies’ Digital Busywork for Free
Consumer technologies—whether user reviews and recommendations, social media or health care portals—involve logistical effort that means more administrative work at home.

Falling Walls: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
This is more than just another industrial revolution—it is something that transcends humankind and even biology


How to Fight Format Rot
The Library of Congress has your back

How to Read Old MS Word Files When Word Says You Can’t

WannaCry Report Shows NHS Chiefs Knew of Security Danger, but Management Took No Action
The damage that the ransomware caused to Britain’s National Health Service was not a cybersecurity failure in the practicalities but a failure of cybersecurity management at the top level

Could a Machine Identify Suicidal Thoughts?
A new study uses brain imaging to separate those who think about and even attempt suicide from those who don’t

AI Scans Twitter for Signs of Opioid Abuse
Geotagged tweets using slang like “dummies,” “Captain Cody” or other drug handles could help pinpoint clusters of opioid problems more quickly than traditional methods do

Out of the Syrian Crisis, a Data Revolution Takes Shape
Aid organizations have been piloting a nimble approach to cut through the fog of war

Quantum Leaps in Quantum Computing?
New qubit designs could enable more robust machines

DNA Techniques Could Transform Facial Recognition Technology
Early tests of the “vide-omics” principle have already demonstrated its potential

Keep Your Wi-Fi off KRACK
Up-to-date software, apps, browsers and router software offer the best protection against a potential flaw in wi-fi security called a key reinstallation attack, or KRACK.

AI versus AI: Self-Taught AlphaGo Zero Vanquishes Its Predecessor
DeepMind’s Go game-playing AI—which dominated its human competition—just got better