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These Video-Game Consoles Were Designed To Be Excruciatingly Slow It’s like playing chess by mail. Video games have been primarily about fast, frenetic action, ever since Nintendo released the original… more ›
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The Digital Media Layer Cake — Backchannel — Medium Each layer requires those beneath it to reach the consumer, whose ultimate interest is primarily the content itself, but who also… more ›
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Design futures 1: Creating systems not destinations It’s easy to forget but the internet is a comparatively young medium and we are only scratching at the surface of its potential.… more ›
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The End Of Apps As We Know Them The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes what we… more ›
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable… more ›
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This Paper Ticket Holds A Tiny Biological Machine The paper ticket you see pictured above is actually a little biology machine. It’s a gene circuit stored on a slip of… more ›
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Exclusive: Google CEO Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar In a significant reorganization of Google management, CEO Larry Page is transferring leadership of core Google… more ›
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Google’s DeepMind Acqui-Hires Two AI Teams In The UK, Partners With Oxford Earlier this year Google acquired DeepMind in the UK to expand the work that it is doing in… more ›
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BBC launches WhatsApp Ebola service The BBC has launched an Ebola public health information service on WhatsApp, aimed at users of the service in West Africa. The service will provide… more ›
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The Socialist Origins of Big Data In June, 1972, Ángel Parra, Chile’s leading folksinger, wrote a song titled “Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born.” Computers are… more ›