To Trump opponents, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Hate crimes and swastika graffiti have been on the rise. White supremacists have descended on D.C., chanting "Heil Victory." Trump's main presidential priority seems to be to advance his business interests.
On the main drag of downtown San Francisco, a bearded man with a tattered t-shirt stumbles into the middle of busy Market Street, carrying a foldable lawn chair.
Most of America makes its money the old-fashioned way: by getting paid, dollar by hard-earned dollar. Silicon Valley, however, is not most of America. In Silicon Valley there is no shortage of riches, to be sure. But that wealth didn’t arrive in the form of paychecks. Instead, it invariably arrived when people cashed…
Peg Corbett is Key West's sharing economy sheriff. Every day, she scours listings on Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway, not in search of a beautiful home to rent, but in search of people breaking the law.
In June, Senator Ted Cruz released a video declaring that President Obama is on the verge of "giving the internet away" to Iran, Russia and China. The video deploys an appropriately menacing soundtrack, some cyber-spooky glitch effects, and the threat of a "mini UN" taking over our beloved bastion of free speech and…
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Last month, Tribune Publishing, the company that publishes The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, announced that it was renaming itself "tronc." The company said it planned to use "artificial intelligence and machine learning" to deliver better content to the 60 million people who visit its…
Your car insurance company may have a surprising way to spy on your odometer.
Elon Musk just released "Part Deux" of his master plan.
The Mirador 1000 is a massive, white condominium building fronted by palm trees in Miami's South Beach neighborhood. It's got a pool that looks directly out onto the ocean, a beautiful lobby and its own workout room. It's within walking distance of South Beach's best restaurants, shopping and clubs. A unit in the…
On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal posted a piece titled, “Facebook Blames Lack of Available Talent for Diversity Problem.” Facebook has come to the conclusion that their diversity problem is due to there being too few underrepresented people who have the necessary tech skills to work for them. So instead of looking…
Bitcoin has long suffered the slings and arrows of being derided variously as “internet funny money”, “math-based beanie babies” and our personal favorite, “buttcoin.” While the cryptocurrency itself is notoriously unstable—with its wildly fluctuating value, scalability issues and various associations with conmen and …
Hillary Clinton has released her vision for the future of technology in America. The Democratic nominee wants to improve science and tech education in under-resourced schools, to delay student loan payback for graduates who launch tech start-ups, to get high-speed internet to the whole country, to set up free Wi-Fi at…
Our forward-thinking cousins in Europe have proposed that robots, should they achieve sentience any time soon, be legally classified as “electronic persons.” And while treating our mechanical friends as though they were real people is a wise preemptive move to quell their inevitable, murderous uprising against us for…
This is going to sound like a very strange story, because it is.
Uber is being sued by so many people right now that it can be hard to keep track. Last year, 50 lawsuits were filed against Silicon Valley's favorite start-up in U.S. federal court alone—and since then, still more suits have been filed, while others have settled.
If pop culture has taught me anything, it's that computers love a good game of chess. Chess is now comparatively passé in the world of artificial intelligence playing games, surpassed by the more complex game of Go, but it's still fascinating to watch computer chess machines work.
Riot Games, the developer behind the immensely popular free-to-play game League of Legends, is a juggernaut in the gaming industry. It's also one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" according to Fortune (#39, down from #13 the year before, to be precise). One of the ways it reportedly maintains this pleasant work…
The future is formless.
As if you weren't already glued to your Newsfeed, there will soon be yet another time-suck feature added to the mix: Facebook announced Thursday that it will now support 360 degree photos, giving everyone the possibility of "exploring moments on Facebook as if you were actually there." Get ready to look like a weirdo,…