Wellness Tech: The Evolution of Apple Health

I hit rock bottom in April 2013. My weight had ballooned to 252 lbs., and eating had become a compulsion. I hated the way I looked and the difficulty I had moving around, and I especially hated the way I felt. I had tried everything (or so I thought) and had a 100 percent failure … Continue reading "Wellness Tech: The Evolution of Apple Health"

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How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?

The internet and near-costless scaling of digital has allowed the concentration of too much power in too few hands. Our systems for accountability can’t or won’t keep up. By building alternatives, the decentralisation of networks, governance and control are a promising antidote. Read full Article

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Worries about the rise of the gig economy are mostly overblown

IT IS a warm morning on Bondi Beach. Simon and Sophia are drinking coffee on a terrace while athleisure-clad millennials stroll by. The young American couple, both management consultants, came to Sydney from New York for a working holiday. Read full Article

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The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job

When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits? In 2016, an anonymous confession appeared on Reddit: “From around six years ago up until now, I have done nothing at work.” As far as office confessions go, that might seem pretty tepid. Read full Article

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Joseph Stiglitz on artificial intelligence: ‘We’re going towards a more divided society’

The technology could vastly improve lives, the economist says – but only if the tech titans that control it are properly regulated. ‘What we have now is totally inadequate’ It must be hard for Joseph Stiglitz to remain an optimist in the face of the grim future he fears may be coming. Read full Article

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Jeff Bezos Explains Why His Best Decisions Were Based Off Intuition, Not Analysis

Jeff Bezos shared some advice on entrepreneurial decision-making on Thursday, saying he made all his best decisions based on instinct, not analysis. He also repeated a previous mantra that Amazon’s secret sauce is “obsessive compulsive” focus on the consumer, rather than its competitors. Read full Article

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Algorithmic warfare is coming. Humans must retain control

Humanity is faced with a grave new reality – the rise of autonomous weapons. It may sound like a Hollywood script, but the risk is real: humans so far removed from wartime choices that life-and-death decision making is effectively left to sensors and software. Read full Article

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A Model for the Future of Education

As kids worldwide head back to school, I’d like to share my thoughts on the future of education. Bottom line, how we educate our kids needs to radically change given the massive potential of exponential tech (e.g. artificial intelligence and virtual reality). Read full Article

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A Model for the Future of Education

As kids worldwide head back to school, I’d like to share my thoughts on the future of education. Bottom line, how we educate our kids needs to radically change given the massive potential of exponential tech (e.g. artificial intelligence and virtual reality). Read full Article

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How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

WASHINGTON — Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold down two demanding jobs simultaneously: head of Stanford University’s A.I. lab and chief scientist for A.I. Read full Article

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apprentice.io

On-the-job training. Accepted into a company based on potential for a permanent role 3-12 months from today instead of experience today. Pursue your dreams! A well-trained workforce. Ability to scale a team faster, with smoother onboarding. Save money and improve retention. Read full Article

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Futurist Gerd Leonhard – Author, Keynote Speaker, CEO The Futures Agency

In the words of American poet John Berryman, “the possibility that has been overlooked is the future”. Read full Article

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Just Don’t Call It Privacy

Amazon, Google and Twitter executives are heading to Congress. Should legislators give consumers control over the data companies have on them? Ms. Singer is a technology reporter at The New York Times. Read full Article

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An AI Pioneer, and the Researcher Bringing Humanity to AI

In 1990, Kai-Fu Lee packed his bags and left Carnegie Mellon University, where he had been teaching artificial intelligence and speech recognition. He headed west to his first Silicon Valley job, running a new group trying to build speech interface technologies at Apple. Read full Article

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The disturbing consequences of ultra-connectivity

Smartphones and mobile devices have given each of us a ‘second brain,’ allowing us to navigate new cities without getting lost and speak fluently in different languages. Read full Article

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Is it time to start addressing ethics in Artificial Intelligence? We think so.

It’s only been, what, 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, am I right? And it wasn’t until fairly recently that women in Saudi Arabia were finally allowed to rev up those Jaguars, and get in the driving seat for once, true? Read full Article

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Google: Safeguard Rights in China

China and should protect employee whistleblowers who raise ethical concerns, Human Rights Watch and other organizations and advocates said in a letter released today. Read full Article

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Kurator des Künftigen

Strippenzieher und Stichwortgeber: John Brockman. Foto: dpaFOTO: picture alliance / Robert Schles / Robert SchlesingerUS-Netzwerker John Brockman lässt auf seiner Homepage die hellsten Köpfe der Gegenwart über die Welt von morgen nachdenken. Read full Article

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Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China

Jack Pouson worked for Google’s lresearch and machine intelligence department, where he was focused on improving the accuracy of the company’s search systems. Read full Article

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An interview with Bruce Schneier on the Internet of Things, global surveillance, and cybersecurity

Bruce Schneier is a world-renowned cryptographer and security technologist whom the Economist has dubbed an “internet-security guru. Read full Article

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