China’s “zero-COVID” policy put the Beijing Winter Olympics under some of the strictest coronavirus protocols in the world. The Games took place in a “closed-loop” environment comprised of gated “bubble areas” that…
Month: February 2022
Here’s why your car isn’t rolling on airless tires… yet
Wouldn’t it be great if you never had to worry about a flat tire? You could drive anywhere, roaming the glove, traveling to remote locations without a worry. Well, stop dreaming. They…
You can select all your typed text by tapping thrice on iOS
If all I know is that I don’t know anything, that means I actually know loads. Let me illustrate. I’ve been on iOS since the iPhone 4, meaning I’ve been using Apple’s…
NASA plans to destroy the ISS — but it’s not without dangers
NASA has announced plans for the International Space Station (ISS) to be officially decommissioned in 2031. After dozens of launches since 1998 got the station up and into orbit, bringing it down…
Brace yourselves, Trump has just launched his social network
The inevitable has happened. Donald Trump’s social network, TRUTH, has just launched on the US App Store. A lot has happened since Trump announced this new venture last October. Last December, Investors…
Your fruit is gonna get tastier — and you’ve got AI to thank for it
Which flavors and chemical compounds make a particular variety of fruit more appealing to consumers can be identified and predicted using artificial intelligence, according to our recently published study. Flavor, defined by…
How to manage your sales leads — and turn them into customers
I’ve been working in sales and marketing roles for more than 30 years, and in that time, I’ve found that—as big a deal as lead generation is—it’s typically lead management that makes the struggle…
AI’s true purpose is freeing up humans to find the biggest problems
Last week’s announcement of AlphaCode, DeepMind’s source code–generating deep learning system, created a lot of excitement—some of it unwarranted—surrounding advances in artificial intelligence. As I’ve mentioned in my deep dive on AlphaCode,…
Python may be easy but it’s a goddamn mess
By industry leaders and academic researchers alike, Python is touted as one of the absolute best languages for novice programmers. And they’re not wrong — but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t…
Scientists say humans are part of a ‘planetary intelligence’
What if we could zoom out past our own myopic point of view and see the planet Earth and all of its inhabitants as one giant global intelligence? That’s the question a…