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Automation will change the world of work – but probably for the better

Much has been written about the “future of work,” and much of it makes for gloomy reading. Study after study predicts that automation will upend entire industries and leave millions unemployed. Read full Article

Facebook deletes, and then restores, Elizabeth Warren’s ads criticizing the platform, drawing her rebuke

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat vying for the presidency, didn’t have to search far and wide for ammunition in her salvo against Facebook and other technology giants. Read full Article

Here’s how we can break up Big Tech

Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn’t exist. Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world. It’s a great story — but also one that highlights why the… Read full Article

Editing the human genome: do the risks outweigh the rewards?

In November last year, the international scientific community was shocked by the announcement by He Jiankui, a CRISPR scientist, that he and his team at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen had created the first “gene-edited babies”. Read full Article

AI is Here and We’re Losing the War

For many months now I have directed my anger against many groups and people. Read full Article

How the Enlightenment Ends

Three years ago, at a conference on transatlantic issues, the subject of artificial intelligence appeared on the agenda. I was on the verge of skipping that session—it lay outside my usual concerns—but the beginning of the presentation held me in my seat. Read full Article

Is Artificial Intelligence Too Dehumanizing to Succeed?

Does all the hype about AI sound just a little too familiar? If you’re old enough to remember the first beginnings of the Internet and the dotcom bubble, you might also remember the tsunami of hype that attended these events as they unfolded. Read full Article

The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’

You can buy almost any thing you want online—toothpaste, books, plastic devices that allow you to lick your cat. On digital work platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com, you can also buy nearly any service—often from someone halfway around the world, sometimes for just a few bucks. Read full Article

A New Method of DNA Testing Could Solve More Shootings

Police found 19 spent shell casings scattered in the San Diego street where Gregory Benton was murdered on April 12, 2014. Benton and his cousin had gone to buy cigarettes, a witness later said. As they returned to a family party, two men pulled up in a car behind them. Read full Article

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A.I. Shows Promise Assisting Physicians

Each year, millions of Americans walk out of a doctor’s office with a misdiagnosis. Physicians try to be systematic when identifying illness and disease, but bias creeps in. Alternatives are overlooked. Read full Article

4 Reasons The Future Is Better Than You Think

It’s a blizzard of bad news out there: an ongoing economic crisis, a burgeoning education crisis, healthcare turmoil, energy poverty, water scarcity—to name but a few of our fears. So pervasive is our sense of doom and gloom, that those telling a different story can rarely be heard. Read full Article

The Copenhagen Letter

We live in a world where technology is consuming society, ethics, and our core existence. It is time to take responsibility for the world we are creating. Time to put humans before business. Time to replace the empty rhetoric of “building a better world” with a commitment to real action. Read full Article

Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO — You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research. Every two years, hundreds of scientists enter a global competition. Tackling a biological puzzle they call “the protein folding problem,” they try to predict the three-dimensional shape of proteins in the human body. Read full Article

‘Austerity, That’s What I Know’: The Making of a Young U.K. Socialist

BRIGHTON, England — Alex McIntyre was raised on budget cuts. The youth center where he went after school was shuttered when he was 10. When he was 11, his mother’s housing benefit was shaved away, a casualty of the Welfare Reform Act. Read full Article

The New Techno-Fusion: The Merging Of Technologies Impacting Our Future

The process of systems integration (SI) functionally links together infrastructure, computing systems, and applications. SI can allow for economies of scale, streamlined manufacturing, and better efficiency and innovation through combined research and development. Read full Article

Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists

There are a lot of worries today about technology’s harmful effects. How do you retain your famous optimism about it? Look at how long people are living, the reduction of under-five mortality, the reduction in how poorly women are treated. Read full Article

Microsoft CEO Defends Army Contract for Augmented Reality

Tech workers are increasingly uneasy about their employers’ work with the US government, especially the military. Read full Article

Emirates Airline Festival of Literature Reveals Top Business and Leadership Sessions

The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature reveals its strong business and leadership strand, which sees world class experts deliver powerful advice on how to boost business potential. Sessions will help the audience prepare for career success and future leadership. Read full Article

Why Apple, Amazon, and Google are making big health care moves

Some of the biggest and most famous brands in America are making big bets on health care. Read full Article