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Facebook is training robot assistants to hear as well as see
In June 2019, Facebook’s AI lab, FAIR, released AI Habitat, a new simulation platform for training AI agents. It allowed agents to explore various realistic virtual environments, like a furnished apartment or cubicle-filled office. 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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A Human-Centric World of Work: Why It Matters, and How to Build It
Long before coronavirus appeared and shattered our pre-existing “normal,” the future of work was a widely discussed and debated topic. Read full Article
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This is what decades of research tells us about the difference between men and women’s brains
People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes. Read full Article
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The Panopticon Is Already Here
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. Read full Article
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🔮 Living with the pandemic; US v China; fake reviews; telepathy, negative-carbon hydrogen & selfies++ #282
I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies. 🦠 These models show how the pandemic could evolve over the months and years to come. Read full Article
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They Made How Much?
You won’t want to miss our next DealBook Debrief call, where we will discuss racial injustice and corporate America with special guest Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Times’s domestic correspondent and creator of The 1619 Project. Read full Article
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Google is quietly experimenting with holographic glasses and smart tattoos
A simple pair of sunglasses that projects holographic icons. A smartwatch that has a digital screen but analog hands. A temporary tattoo that, when applied to your skin, transforms your body into a living touchpad. Read full Article
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Tech’s new “Digital Gods:” humans will soon be deeply integrated with tech
I used to joke with friends that Silicon Valley was done disrupting taxi companies and that we were going after God next. On my summer mostly away from social media I’m taking a fresh look at predictions I’ve made for the last two decades in four separate books. Read full Article
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What Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple have in common
On Wednesday, lawmakers squared off with the chief executives of the tech industry’s four most powerful players, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Read full Article
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Big Tech CEOs face off with Congress
Democrats and Republicans in Congress came out swinging against Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google on Wednesday, needling the tech giants’ top executives over their size, power and approach to a wide array of issues, including the content they allow online. Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I. Read full Article
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“Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s Employees Reckon With The Social Network They’ve Built
As the US heads toward a crucial and contentious presidential election, the world’s largest social network is facing an unprecedented cultural crisis. Read full Article
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One Last Chance to Fix Capitalism
Roughly two-thirds of the way through Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Rebecca Henderson’s prescription for reversing some of the damage business has done in the past half-century, the Harvard Business School professor rates the chances that environmentally iffy industries might effectiv Read full Article
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Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough”
Editors’ Note: Details from this post appeared in similar form in a July, 2011, piece by Jonah Lehrer for Wired magazine, U.K. We regret the duplication of material. Read full Article
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink gadget will ‘stream music straight into your BRAIN’ with no headphones needed
ELON Musk’s Neuralink implants will stream music straight into your brain. This feature was confirmed by Musk when replying to a question on Twitter. Read full Article
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A Job Guarantee
As I continue to research the societal factors that influence our future, I’ve explored broad topics from Government Deficits to Modern Monetary Theory. Most recently, I’ve looked into something that lies at the heart of many societal ills; unemployment and underemployment. Read full Article
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How Musk, Bezos And Other Visionaries Use The “Future-Back” Technique
In the midst of crises, great leaders address short-term threats but also engage their teams with a vision of the future. This isn’t just a reminder about annual goals, but rather a compelling future state that is five, ten or even a hundred years in the future. Read full Article
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Google and Apple’s diktat to governments on coronavirus contact-tracing apps is a troubling display of unaccountable power
On 10 April, in the midst of the largest public health crisis in over 100 years, Apple and Google quietly revealed the true extent of their political power. The way they did so has left me questioning some long-held beliefs. Here’s why. Read full Article
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Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boycott
SOCIAL NETWORKS know a thing or two about virality. Still, Facebook was probably surprised by the speed at which a small protest, begun on June 17th by a collection of American civil-rights groups, has gained steam. Read full Article
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Virtual Conferences Mean All-Access—Except When They Don’t
If this season’s virtual tech events have offered a kind of blueprint for what may come—a beta test, if you will—they’ve proven there’s still blank space for the communal elements humans crave. Read full Article
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