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Progress Needs Participants
Progress needs data – and the most useful data comes from people, specifically those that make up the less fortunate half.
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When Text Is Cheap, Trust Is Expensive
Generative AI makes authoritative text cheap, forcing institutions to rethink verification, accountability, and oversight.
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Are Quantum Computers Actually Real Yet?
As hardware, yes – as useful tools, not yet.
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Have We Broken the Republic?
How the United States dismantled the guardrails of its democracy – and whether it can still recover.
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The Rise of Emotional AI in Chatbots
From pizza orders to smart home cameras, empathetic AI is now nudging our decisions in real time. Can we keep up?
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Empathy-as-a-Service
The latest AI developments turn empathy into just another product for sale, raising questions about ethics and regulation.
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Empathy.exe: When Tech Gets Personal
The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us?
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Memory in 3D: holograms to save data – and the planet
Holographic storage slashes energy use, boosts data capacity, and supports AI – offering a sustainable future for data centres.
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Moore’s Law Is Ending – What Comes Next
Task-specific computing is driving a hardware renaissance now that we can no longer rely on Moore’s law to solve our problems.
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