Once upon a time, there was nothing like Flickr. If you were a person who cared about taking, editing, and sharing photos, it was the best and most robust community of like-minded people on the Internet. Now that's not true. Far from it. For the photo-nerd crowd, 500px and SmugMug are just two of the many places you can talk about photos in a deep, constructive way. Instagram, is, well, it's Insta
Much like the engineering team that created it, Google Spanner is something that stretches across the globe while behaving as if it's all in one place. Unveiled this fall after years of hints and rumors, it's the first worldwide database worthy of the name -- a database designed to seamlessly operate across hundreds of data centers and millions of machines and trillions of rows of information. Eac
When Google open sourced its artificial intelligence engine last week, some saw it not as a triumph of the free software movement but as a triumph of data. When Google open sourced its artificial intelligence engine last week—freely sharing the code with the world at large—Lukas Biewald didn't see it as a triumph of the free software movement. He saw it as a triumph of data. That's how you'd expec
Chris DiBona was worried everything would end up in one place. This was a decade ago, before the idea of open source software flipped the tech world upside-down. The open source Linux operating system was already running an enormous number of machines on Wall Street and beyond, proving you can generate big value---and big money---by freely sharing software code with the world at large. But the ope
A Stanford graduate student recently took on Google's best image recognition AI software. He won. But it took some effort. A visualization of a convolutional neural network, a new breed of AI algorithm that can do things like identify images.Courtesy Andrej Karpathy Andrej Karpathy knows what it's like to compete with artificial intelligence. He first went head-to-head with an artificial intellige
The AI on the horizon looks more like Amazon Web Services—cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off. This is a big deal, and now it's here. A few months ago I made the trek to the sylvan campus of the IBM research labs in Yorktown Heights, New York, to catch an early glimpse of the fast-arriving, long-overdue futur
Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tchotchkes bearing the numbers six and five (VI and V in roman numerals). Ariel Zambelich When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera. Instead […] Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California
Drawing on the work of a clever cadre of academic researchers, the biggest names in tech—including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple—are embracing a more powerful form of AI known as “deep learning,” using it to improve everything from speech recognition and language translation to computer vision, the ability to identify images without human help. Microsoft's new artificial intelligence syst
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street photographs, asking themselves the same question over and over again: “Am I looking at an address or not?’ Click. Yes. Click. Yes. Click. No. This was […] It was one of the most tedious jobs on the internet. A team of Googlers would spe
Deep learning seeks to remake computing by more closely mimicking the way the human brain processes information, giving machines far more power to “learn” as time goes on. Adam Gibson (right) teaches deep learning techniques at the Zipfian Academy in San Francisco.Photo: Josh Valcarcel Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are pioneering a new kind of artificial intelligence. At Google, it helps drive t
The founder of Foursquare always envisioned the app as a fellow traveler, dispensing relevant information unbidden — tucked-away bars as you strolled a neighborhood, sale items as you entered a boutique, or popular appetizers as you sat down for dinner at a new restaurant. But time and again, he was stymied by the massive technical challenge of building this kind of system. Finally, after 13 years
Bill Gates on how innovation is the key to a brighter future, and how we're only just getting started. I am a little obsessed with fertilizer. I mean I'm fascinated with its role, not with using it. I go to meetings where it's a serious topic of conversation. I read books about its benefits and the problems with overusing it. It's the kind of topic I have to remind myself not to talk about too muc
GitHub is Facebook for geeks. Instead of uploading videos of your cat, you upload software. Anyone can comment on your code and add to it and build it into something better. The trick is that it decentralizes programming, giving everyone a new kind of control. GitHub has shaken up the way software gets written, making coding a little more anarchic, a little more fun, and a lot more productive. SAN
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