Who Owns 4chan?
While the infamous imageboard’s ties to mass shootings have long been clear, its relationship with a Japanese toymaker has remained remarkably murky. Over the past 19 years, the imageboard 4chan has been tied to Gamergate, the inception of QAnon, the incubation of a particular brand of online racism, and a raft of domestic terror attacks that have killed scores of people. Tragically, references an
The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less
Gavin Wood, who coined the term Web3 in 2014, believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy. Do you ever find yourself wondering, “What is Web3?” You’re not alone. The idea is having a moment, whether you’re measuring by VC funding, lobbying blitzes, or incomprehensible corporate announcements. But it can be hard to tell what all the hype is about. To believ
Watch an Expert Explain Quantum Computing to an 8-Year-Old
A researcher explains quantum computing in terms anyone can understand—even an 8-year-old. You’ve probably heard of quantum computing. Do you understand it? Unlikely! It’s time that you did. The basic idea—tap into quantum physics to make immensely powerful computers—isn’t new. Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman is generally credited with first suggesting that in 1982. But in the past few yea
GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online. On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. GitHub briefly struggled with in
God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger | Backchannel
AI is this engineer's religion. But it’s his all-too-human behavior that sits at the heart of Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber. Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of the machines. In
Andrew Ng’s Next Project Takes Aim at the Deep Learning Skills Gap
For machine learning to change the world, more coders need to know how to use it. Andrew Ng is a soft-spoken AI researcher whose online postings talk loudly. A March blog post in which the Stanford professor announced he was leaving Chinese search engine Baidu temporarily wiped more than a billion dollars off the company’s value. A June tweet about a new Ng website, Deeplearning.ai, triggered a wa
What Is Ray Kurzweil Up to at Google? Writing Your Emails
Ray Kurzweil has invented a few things in his time. In his teens, he built a computer that composed classical music, which won him an audience with President Lyndon B. Johnson. In his 20s, he pioneered software that could digitize printed text, and in his 30s he cofounded a synthesizer company with Stevie Wonder. More recently, he’s known for popularizing the idea of the singularity—a moment somet
What the UK can learn from Singapore's smart city
Will plans for urban innovation hubs cure the UK’s anxiety over an uncertain future? Just ask Singapore Since I arrived in Singapore in 2015, I often get the feeling that I'm living in the future. I cruise through immigration at Changi Airport, scanning my passport and thumb without breaking stride. I surf a 1Gbps fibre connection at home and work from a buzzing co-working space full of startups.
Google Is Already Late to China's AI Revolution
Google wants to spread its AI revolution to China. But the revolution has already arrived. Sitting on a stage in Wuzhen, China, a historic city up the river from Shanghai, Google chairman Eric Schmidt described what he called "the age of intelligence." But he wasn't talking about human intelligence. He meant machine intelligence. He trumpeted the rise of deep neural networks and other techniques t
Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
Google operates what is surely the largest computer network on Earth, a system that comprises custom-built, warehouse-sized data centers spanning 15 locations in four continents. But about six years ago, as the company embraced a new form of voice recognition on Android phones, its engineers worried that this network wasn't nearly big enough. If each of the world's Android phones used the new Goog
It Begins: Bots Are Learning to Chat in Their Own Language
Igor Mordatch is working to build machines that can carry on a conversation. That's something so many people are working on. In Silicon Valley, chatbot is now a bona fide buzzword. But Mordatch is different. He's not a linguist. He doesn't deal in the AI techniques that typically reach for language. He's a roboticist who began his career as an animator. He spent time at Pixar and worked on Toy Sto
The New Raspberry Pi Zero W Is Your Key to the Hackable Future
The New Raspberry Pi Zero W Is Your Key to the Hackable Future It features built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, making it just the thing for DIY IoT Eben Upton didn't plan on becoming a computer engineer. It happened out of necessity. The 38-year-old inventor of Raspberry Pi---the credit card-sized computer that costs less than a movie ticket---recalls a day from childhood when he tried to print a homewo
The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
Politicians routinely bemoan the loss of good blue-collar jobs. Work like that is correctly seen as a pillar of civil middle-class society. And it may yet be again. What if the next big blue-collar job category is already here—and it’s programming? What if we regarded code not as a high-stakes, sexy affair, but the equivalent of skilled work at a Chrysler plant? Among other things, it would change
To Solve Its Hardest Problems, Silicon Valley Turns to Physicists
As the technological challenges of tech companies get bigger and badder, a crowd of physicists is moving in on the engineer headcount. It's a bad time to be a physicist. At least, that’s what Oscar Boykin says. He majored in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and in 2002 he finished a physics PhD at UCLA. But four years ago, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland discov
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Alongside a former Stanford researcher---Jia Li, who more recently ran research for the social networking service Snapchat---the China-born Fei-Fei will lead a team inside Google's cloud computing operation, building online services that any coder or company can use to build their own AI. This new Cloud Machine Learning Group is the latest example of AI not only re-shaping the technology that Goog
What the Snapdragon 835 Chip Means for Your Next Smartphone
Your next smartphone's processor is going to open up some very cool possibilities. The smartphone upgrade wishlist has remained largely unchanged over the last several years. Our handsets should be faster, and thinner, and eke out as much battery life as physics will allow. Qualcomm’s latest processor, the Snapdragon 835, lets device manufacturers check all of those boxes, but it also adds a healt
How AI Is Shaking Up the Chip Market
GPUs. FPGAs. TPUs. Good luck keeping it all straight. In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone. All three said they'd enjoyed reading an article I'd written about Google building a new computer chip for artificial intelligence, and all three urged me to discuss the story with one of their clients. Each described this cl
AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element.AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator
AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator One of the founding fathers of the deep learning movement is building a Silicon Valley-style tech incubator for AI. Yoshua Bengio, one of the leading figures behind the rise of deep learning, is launching a Silicon Valley-style startup incubator dedicated to this enormously influential form of artificial intelligence. The
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