Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?
How Will AI Affect the Global Workforce?
AI-related innovation may cause near-term job displacement while also ultimately creating new opportunities elsewhere.
Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026
How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
Patients look healthy on paper. Two years later, they're high-risk again.
Which AI Companion Actually Works? I Tested Them All.
The coming choice between loneliness and surveillance
Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
Malleable software in the age of LLMs
All computer users may soon have the ability to author small bits of code. What structural changes does this imply for the production and distribution of software?
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias – GeekWire
Kyra Wilson, left, University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School and Aylin Caliskan, a UW assistant professor in the iSchool. (UW
Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon 'willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time' – GeekWire
One question at Amazon.com's shareholder meeting this morning in Seattle clearly made an impression on Jeff Bezos, sparking an extraordinary response from
My memoir 'Source Code' is out now | Bill Gates
'Source Code' is the first memoir by Bill Gates, and it covers his childhood in Seattle through the early days of Microsoft.
The fascinating story of what happened to GE | Bill Gates
Bill Gates shares his review of 'Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric' by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann.
Gartner Hype Cycle Research Methodology | Gartner
Gartner Hype Cycle methodology offers insights into technology and application evolution to help you manage deployment aligned with business goals.
Gartner Predicts Search Engine Volume Will Drop 25% by 2026, Due to AI
By 2026, traditional search engine volume will drop 25%, with search marketing losing market share to AI chatbots and other virtual agents, according to Gartner, Inc.
Some fun Google coincidences
Read to the end for the bowl
AI search is a doomsday cult
Read to the end for a black cat eating a whole rotisserie chicken while Mamma Mia by ABBA plays in the background
Concept Borrowed From Video Games Leads To Fusion Energy Breakthrough
Scientists have used collision detection--pioneered in video games--to achieve huge efficiency gains in nuclear fusion.
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State of the Global Workplace Report
Get the workplace trends, global engagement metrics and advice on how organizations can improve the workplace in the State of the Global Workplace Report.
Worldcoin Ordered to Delete All Iris Scanning Data From Users in Spain, Germany | Technology News
In Spain, the World project has been under a temporary ban, which the High Court there upheld in March.
Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment - Gadget Review
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.
Future's Happening
Mission Critical 01: Statecraft for the 21st century - Future Governance Forum
How can Labour shift its five missions from campaign promises into a programme for government?
Protocol - Futility Closet
New Mexico’s state senate took up a startling amendment in 1995 — it would have required psychologists to dress up as wizards when providing expert testimony on a defendant’s competency: When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts. Additionally, a psychologist or psychiatrist shall be required to don a white beard that is not less than 18 inches in length and shall punctuate crucial elements of his...
WitchTok: how the occult became big online
‘The pandemic has proven a fertile moment for the magical, and it is finding a home on social media’
Is the west talking itself into decline?
The data suggests that we have shifted away from a culture of progress towards one of worry
HSBC claims quantum trading breakthrough
Europe’s largest lender tested a tool developed by IBM on bond market data
Big Tech groups say their $100bn AI spending spree is just beginning
Tech stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in AI investments
Techno-energy is reshaping the world
Traditional power brokers endowed with reserves of fossil fuels will see their global leverage wane
Scenario planning is getting a stress test
Wait-and-see approach from business leaders is prudent but risks paralysis
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?