Interesting Tidbits

Time Jeff Bezos is still the world’s richest person, but he’s a lot closer to No. 2 Bill Gates than just a few months ago. The Amazon.com Inc. founder lost $19.2 billion over the past two trading […]

  Phys.org Even if you have “Location History” off, Google often stores your precise location. Here’s how to delete those markers and some best-effort practices that keep your location as private as possible. But there’s […]

Business Insider The Chinese government is working to create a techno-authoritarian state powered by artificial intelligence and facial recognition to track and monitor its 1.4 billion citizens. The government has big plans to have a ubiquitous […]

Bloomberg Standing high on top of a windswept dune in the West Texas plains, Greg Edwards stares out into a vast ocean of sand. It stretches in every direction, interrupted only by an occasional strip […]

BBC It is a terrifying vision of the future – a robot police officer with dark eyes and no discernible mouth that can identify criminals and collect evidence. The robocop, complete with police hat to […]

By Jeff Muskus May 17, 2018, 6:00 AM EDT Bloomberg AI-GENERATED PAINTING BY ROBBIE BARRAT FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Less than a year after he got his high school diploma and left Shenandoah Junction, W.Va., for […]

Live Science Imagine your least-favorite world leader. (Take as much time as you need.) Now, imagine if that person wasn’t a human, but a network of millions of computers around the world. This digi-dictator has instant access […]

Business Insider A British scientist claims to have invented a plastic-free, single-use water bottle that can decompose within three weeks. The Choose Water bottle, developed by James Longcroft, aims to replace plastic bottles and help […]

Business Insider Bret Hartman/TED Forget Facebook’s data-sharing. New technologies could soon make it possible for companies and institutions to passively track your emotions and health. Poppy Crum, the chief scientist at Dolby Labs, discussed these […]

Business Insider Amid the tech landscape, “unicorns” are few and far between. Last year, CB Insights tallied the odds of becoming a unicorn — a company valued at $1 billion or more — at under 1%. But […]