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How Two AI Startup Unicorns Went Bust
AI is hard. How hard? Your company can hit a valuation of more than one billion dollars one moment and you're out of business the next. We look at tw…
1 year, 6 months ago
How Hydroelectricity Works
Hydroelectric power harnesses the energy of water to generate electricity, but how? From turbine design to dynamos, we look at the components that ma…
1 year, 6 months ago
Tech News: Meta Wants the Internet On Your Face
Meta held its Connect conference this week and showed off some chonky augmented reality glasses, among other things. Plus, OpenAI shakes things up an…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Story of the Sony Walkman
Time named the Sony Walkman number 47 on a list of the 50 most influential gadgets of all time. How did the Walkman become a thing, and what influenc…
1 year, 6 months ago
Smart Talks with IBM: The power of Granite in business
As the scale of artificial intelligence continues to evolve, open technology like many of IBM’s Granite models are helping enhance transparency in AI…
1 year, 6 months ago
A Quick Chat About CAPTCHAs
Where did CAPTCHAs come from? What purpose do they serve? How do they relate to artificial intelligence? And why are some of them so doggone hard?
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1 year, 6 months ago
Tech News: Exploding Pagers and Nuclear-Powered AI
Israel is allegedly behind an attack on Hezbollah involving exploding pagers. How did that happen? In other news, Microsoft wants to reopen a nuclear…
1 year, 6 months ago
Social Networks and Mental Health
Is there a link between social media use and mental health challenges? We look at a meta-analysis and use some critical thinking to tackle the issue.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Rerun: The Ghost in the Machine
What does "the ghost in the machine" mean? From philosophy to artificial intelligence, we explore this idiom to understand what it means, how it's us…
1 year, 6 months ago
Tech News: AI Stalks Us on Friday the 13th
We've got a lot of stories about artificial intelligence to talk about this week. Plus, Xbox holds more layoffs, Sony announces a new PS5 model, and …
1 year, 6 months ago