personal technology

Oct 19, 2017
Your pension fund could be invested in tech
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The money pool comes from universities, government entities and ultimately, you.
Oct 17, 2017
The economics of future technology … explained with comics
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate the not-too-distant future in “Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything.”
Oct 11, 2017
Will AI eventually let us enhance our own brains?
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The economics of superintelligence and the workplace.
Sep 20, 2017
88 percent of US students now have fast internet in their classrooms. Here’s why.
Four years ago, less than 10 percent of U.S. students had adequate internet bandwidth in their classrooms, based on Federal Communications Commission standards. Today, 88 percent do, according to a report out this week from nonprofit EducationSuperHighway. How did the digital divide get narrowed so quickly? Click the audio player above to hear the full […]
Aug 22, 2017
Cloudflare’s CEO wants to talk about who censors the internet
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Matthew Prince terminated the account of extremist website The Daily Stormer, but he's still worried about censorship.
Aug 4, 2017
Fighting terrorism online
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Social media companies are struggling — trying to walk a fine line between cracking down on propaganda from terrorist organizations like ISIS, which are sophisticated at using social media, without trampling free speech.
Jul 31, 2017
Internet restrictions make doing business harder in China
Many popular internet sites are blocked for users of the state network in China — Google, YouTube and more. Some users, many of them business users, employ a VPN, a virtual personal network, to get around that “Great Firewall.” In a crackdown on unregistered VPNs, China has persuaded Apple to pull all major VPN services […]
Jul 17, 2017
With a content library valued at $12 billion, Netflix’s long-term strategy may be paying off
Netflix has been ahead of its competitors in creating original content.
Jul 14, 2017
How the FBI is functioning on the ground, even as leadership shifts
Jimmy Jenkins
“We have not missed a beat, we won’t miss a beat," says the Phoenix bureau's agent in charge.
Jul 13, 2017
Women who left tech jobs were sexually harassed and passed over for promotions, report says
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"Women experience significantly more unfairness than men,” the lead researcher says.