Beware the Tech Bro who comes bearing gifts
[ad_1] American entrepreneurs have long fixated on extracting the maximum economic value out of, well really, any resource they can get their hands on — from Henry Ford's assembly line…
AI tech leaders make all the right noises at cozy closed-door Senate meeting
[ad_1] The CEOs of leading AI companies — including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, Tesla's Elon Musk and Open AI's Sam Altman — appeared before Congress…
Meet Richard Akrwright, the world’s first tech titan
[ad_1] You didn't actually believe all those founder's myths about tech billionaires like Bezos, Jobs and Musk pulling themselves up by their bootstraps from some suburban American garage, did you?…
Hitting the Books: The programming trick that gave us DOOM multiplayer
[ad_1] Since its release in 1993, id Software's DOOM franchise has become one of modern gaming's most easily recognizable IPs. The series has sold more than 10 million copies to…
Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds
[ad_1] Humans produce around 4.4 billion tons of concrete every year. That process consumes around 8 billion tons of sand (out of the 40-50 billion tons in total used annually)…
Hitting the Books: Why we haven’t made the ‘Citizen Kane’ of gaming
[ad_1] Steven Spielberg's wholesome sci-fi classic, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, became a cultural touchstone following its release in 1982. The film's hastily-developed (as in, "you have five weeks to get this…
An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books
[ad_1] It certainly didn't take long for AI's other shoe to drop, what with the emergent technology already being perverted to commit confidence scams and generate spam content. We can…
Hitting the Books: The thirty-year quest to make WiFi a connectivity reality
[ad_1] The modern world of consumer tech wouldn't exist as we know it if not for the near-ubiquitous connectivity that Wi-Fi internet provides. It serves as the wireless link bridging…
Why humans can’t use natural language processing to speak with the animals
[ad_1] We’ve been wondering what goes on inside the minds of animals since antiquity. Dr. Doolittle’s talent was far from novel when it was first published in 1920; Greco-Roman literature…
Hitting the Books: In England’s industrial mills, even the clocks worked against you
[ad_1] America didn't get around to really addressing child labor until the late '30s when Roosevelts New Deal took hold and the Public Contracts Act raised the minimum age to…