China Can’t Mask Impact of Coronavirus
The Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in China has exposed the best and the worst aspects of the world’s biggest totalitarian nation.
Blog: Facial Recognition Is Not yet a Threat
The availability of facial-recognition technology to governments and law enforcement has been with us for many years and the new…
Blog: Is It Really Business as Usual?
It’s not just in Wuhan. Also in Shenzhen, all shops and restaurants are closed except some supermarkets and pharmacies.
Blog: Modern Satellites and Fire From the Sky
Satellite systems are among the most crucial technologies for people on earth. They are also vulnerable to terrorist manipulation.
The Different Guises of Power “Protection”
Often, it’s those obvious problems that offer the opportunity for basic solutions, but the factors which are hard to foresee…
Blog: VR & Marketing
Using such sophisticated AR/VR techniques to manipulate children to buy products is questionable. Being gleeful about it is unseemly.
AI: Made in Our Image
Because AI is so passively absorptive of the data fed into it, it cannot help but reflect the biases —…
Blog: The Strength of Europe’s Homegrown Innovation
Europeans in technology tend to venerate Silicon Valley as the epicenter of innovation, believing that it’s where they need to…
Images in a Post-Truth Era
We can instantly edit, enhance and distort photos. Shouldn’t we think first before enabling that same ability for augmented reality?
AI: There’s More to Chip Performance Than TOPS
What is the best measure of inference performance?