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Byline: BY GREGORY BARBER ILLUSTRATIONS BY ISRAEL G. VARGAS THE TRILLION-DOLLAR AUCTION TO SAVE THE WORLD OCEAN CREATURES SOAK UP HUGE AMOUNTS OF HUMANITY'S CARBON MESS. SHOULD WE VALUE THEM [...]

Byline: Gregory Barber PHOTOGRAPH BY KLAUS PICHLER LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT One day in 2015, Teemu Teeri was getting off a train in Helsinki when he spotted a chimera [...]

Byline: BY CLIVE THOMPSON ILLUSTRATION BY SAM WHITNEY THE NEW SPREADSHEET REVOLUTION The venerable (and, yes, super dull) piece of officeware is getting reinvented as a tool for noncoders to [...]

Byline: BY GREGORY BARBER PHOTOGRAPHS BY EVAN SHEEHAN AND ALEX WALLBAUM THE WEIRD HAND OF PROGRESS ADA PALMER WRITES SCIENCE FICTION ABOUT THE 25TH CENTURY AND TEACHES COLLEGE STUDENTS ABOUT [...]

Byline: BY GREGORY BARBER Photographs by Aubrey Trinnaman Flower Vs. Power On a high desert ridge in central Nevada, there's enough lithium to produce millions of batteries for electric vehicles. [...]

Byline: BY Gregory Barber PHOTOGRAPH BY Cayce Clifford Microclimate Watch The secret to office energy conservation? Costas Spanos thinks you should track your workers and hand over the lights and [...]

Byline: BY GREGORY BARBER ILLUSTRATION STORYTK ANGRY NERD ai28 STORYTK THE CENTER MUST HOLD Help, I've been atomized! Obliterated! Shattered and scattered in the cyber-ether! My corporate overlords have heard [...]

Byline: As told to Gregory Barber Chat apps Colonel Enrique Oti, Director, Project Kessel Run, US Air Force The U.S. military spends billions on IT, and I'm one of the [...]

Byline: As told to Gregory Barber JavaScript Jerome Hardaway, Geek-at-Arms, Vets Who Code I call JavaScript the working man's language. It's not something they teach you in school; you learn [...]

Byline: BY GREGORY BARBER CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK COW, INTERRUPTED Horn-free? Yup. Heat-tolerant? Sure. Flu-proof? Of course. Crispr could make our food supply more efficient and more humane. But it's struggling [...]

Byline: -GREGORY BARBERDUMB REPLIES, ALL psd17There's a ghostwriter in my machine. And it's no Lee Israel-she'd balk at all the fast-flying verbal inanities. I speak of Smart Reply, Google's answer, [...]

Byline: GREGORY BARBER HAGAR VARDIMONTAKING BACK MY DATAI SOLD MY DIGITAL SOUL FOR CRYPTO psdHAGAR VARDIMON1617On a recent Tuesday night, during a session of rash bedtime scrolling, I sold my [...]

Byline: -GREGORY BARBER The Pursuit of Youth Ask the internet for antiaging tips and you'll find advice ranging from Goop-y frivolities to dangerous shams. 'Aging has always been a target [...]

Byline: by Joe Keohane Robots Wrote This Story What The Washington Post 's journalism-generating software means for the future of news. When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim [...]

Byline: GREGORY BARBER CAIT OPPERMANN BREWMASTER BILL INSIDE THE COFFEE LAB As a chemical engineer who studies the motion of fluids, Bill Ristenpart deals with a lot of spattered blood [...]

Byline: -GREGORY BARBER CRAZY MONEY We have no idea why companies and organizations make the VC investments they do-but that won't stop us from making some guesses. INVESTOR STARTUP CIA [...]

Byline: BY Gregory Barber PHOTOGRAPH BY CAIT OPPERMANN THE BRIGHT STUFF HOW TO BRING SOLAR ENERGY TO LOW-INCOME FAMILIES. Melt the Winter Chill WHITE EARTH NATION, MINNESOTA With the heavy [...]

Byline: -GREGORY BARBER BIRD'S-EYE VIEWS Carlos Puertolas began uploading footage of his drone-racing adventures in 2014 and quickly built a fan base among pilots who admired his aggressive, edgy acrobatics. [...]

The Abundance By Annie Dillard ECCO Annie Dillard has been called the Thoreau of the suburbs, exploring her neighborhood and 'turning over rocks,' as she puts it. She delves into [...]

FEATURES Is the brain a useful model for AI? It's possible that AI models don't need to mimic the brain at all. The machine-learning algorithms behind many recent AI milestones can't be programmed or reverse-engineered in the same way as conventional software. As we interact with more AI systems, perhaps our own remarkable capacity for learning will help us develop a theory of machine mind, to intuit their motivations and behavior. [Extracted from the article]

Buolamwini, now working on a PhD at MIT, is among those pressing companies and governments to be more cautious in their embrace of AI. In September, that subcommittee asked more than 80 companies for accounts of how they'd been harmed by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Her startup, Oasis Labs, is built on the idea of differential privacy - cryptographic techniques that allow companies to incorporate data into their algorithms without seeing the individual data points. For young companies that want to accept payments - especially tech startups, which are Stripe's core clientele - that can be a costly time suck. It's a fix, he says, for "platform risk": when a big company lures in startups to build products that rely on the giant's troves of user data, only to cut off access to that data later. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the scientist Fei-Fei Li who is the researcher that built ImageNet which is a database that helps computers recognize images. It states that through the help of artificial intelligence tools like ImageNet, a computer can be taught to learn a specific task and then act far faster than human beings.

Before 1998, nearly any discussion related to when the Department of Defense (DoD) would achieve 'clean' financial statements included the comment, 'So goes the Department of the Navy, so goes [...]

Assessing the 32 homes of the 21 major presidential candidates MOST EXPENSIVE: $100 MILLION Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue penthouse LEAST EXPENSIVE: $100,000 Rick Santorum's Pennsylvania house MEDIAN VALUE OF A [...]

The article focuses on the Environmental Investigation Agency's (IEA) investigations of criminal behavior in Peru;s Amazonian rain forests. Topics include Alexander von Bismarck's effort to amend the Lacey Act to include stolen forests and make it a federal crime to import illegaly harvested plants, journalist Julia Urrunaga's investigation of illegal logging in the rain forests, and implications of U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The article highlights the use increased use of internet as of 2019, and include the crimes related to it, the problem of hacking, and being dependent on other people such as mail carriers, city councils, health care workers.

A timeline is presented showing the brief history of the global positioning satellite technology including conceptualization, development and modern application.

The article reports on the high technology advances used to protect and fight crimes in the U.S. It discusses the proposed self-guided drones send to investigate alerts from sensors detecting gunshot in Louisville, Kentucky. Also mentioned are the uploaded images of vehicles and license plates in cameras installed at intersections nationwide.