Emerging Tech
Facebook Failed to Make Good on a Promise Because it Has Too Much Faith in Its Tech
Facebook's advertising business brings in the vast majority of the company’s billions of dollars in revenue every quarter.
Digital Government
Why Nerds and Nurses Are Taking Over the U.S. Economy
A blockbuster report from government economists forecasts the workforce of 2026—a world of robot cashiers, well-paid math nerds, and so (so, so, so) many healthcare workers.
Ideas
How Agencies Can Shift From Reactive to Proactive Insider Threat Defense
Smarter tools and rules can help keep agencies on top of what's happening on their networks.
Emerging Tech
Survey: 42% of Feds Say Increasing Workloads Merit More Automation
More than 75 percent of respondents said they spend at least a quarter of their workday on tedious administrative tasks.
Ideas
Without Automation, There is No Federal IT Modernization
But making automation a reality will be a challenge.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Moonshot Lab Cofounder Sebastian Thrun Talks Flying Cars, Automated Teaching, and an AI Arms Race With China
Thrun has a history of getting in front of trends.
Emerging Tech
Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars
A look at how Alphabet understands its most ambitious artificial intelligence project
Emerging Tech
Amazon Wants to Hire 50,000 People. So Far It Has 20,000 Applicants.
Warehouses in the US are frequently beset by job vacancies, even as more tasks get turned over to robot labor.
Digital Government
US Air Force Wants Robots Watching Twitter
Tomorrow’s operations will be shaped by automated analysis of the world’s open-source data, says the service’s chief of staff.
Emerging Tech
Predictions for What Robots Will Do to the U.S. Workforce, Ranked From Certain Doom to Potential Utopia
No matter what you think, there’s probably a research-backed prediction that supports your view.
Emerging Tech
McKinsey: Robots Can Do About 30% of the Work at Banks, But They Won’t Necessarily Take Jobs
Tasks will be automated, not jobs.
Emerging Tech
Instead of Hacking Self-Driving Cars, Researchers Are Trying to Hack the World They See
A sticker applied to a stop sign could be disastrous.
Artificial Intelligence
It Will Take Human-Machine Teams to Fight Cyber Threats, McAfee CTO Says
Artificial intelligence won’t replace humans, but it will change the way they work.
Artificial Intelligence
Will Robots Take Our Jobs? Perceptions Matter As Much As Reality
The average person's opinion matters.
Artificial Intelligence
To Improve AI, Scientists May Have to Make it Worse
Machine learning today isn’t great at knowing when it should hold on to old information, and when those data have become outdated.
Emerging Tech
A Programmer Automated Their Data-Entry Job. Now the Question Is Whether to Tell Their Employer.
What are the ethics of automating yourself out of a job?
Emerging Tech
Robots Used to Be Advertised as Job-Saving Technology
The idea that automation will save factory jobs from migrating overseas has never really broken into the popular narrative.
Emerging Tech
Robots Used to Be Advertised As Job-Saving Technology
Automation is now viewed in the same manner as outsourcing.
Digital Government
How Bots Can Help DARPA's Confidence Problem
The Pentagon R&D unit wants to automate the process of assessing scientific studies.
Artificial Intelligence