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While Microsoft and Google preach how society can be enhanced through artificial intelligence, not everyone is thinking about making the world a better place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols. Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke about the potential power of artificial intelligence to students on Friday, saying “the one who becomes the leader in this […]

Clocking 130mph winds and bringing nearly 40 inches (102 cm) of rain to the Houston, Texas area, Hurricane Harvey has been called the most powerful storm to hit the US in 12 years. It wrought still untold damage on the region, including upon hundreds of commercial zones that supply food and general goods. Getting stores […]

On Thursday night (Aug. 31), billionaire Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a defense of Dreamers, immigrants who were brought into the US illegally as children. That’s because US president Donald Trump is threatening to scrap Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program more commonly known as “DACA,” that allows those children to […]

New research from Alphabet’s life science company, Verily, and Google shows that one day there might be a far easier test to determine risk of heart disease. Researchers were able to find new indicators of heart disease risk present in pictures of retinas by analyzing them with artificial intelligence, according to a paper published Thursday […]

According to several reports, Donald Trump is all but set to announce his termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly referred to as DACA. But what exactly does that mean, and whom does it affect? What is DACA? The policy, introduced 2012, protects so-called DREAMers, or immigrants who would have qualified for protection […]

1. Nine to forever At lunch at the Sizzler (a few decades ago), my dad pointed to a guy talking on one of those old, giant cell phones, and warned me never to take employment that would require me to be connected to the office during lunch. Times have changed—and you’d need to pause and […]

The US government is forcing Russia’s consulate in San Francisco to shut down on Saturday (Sept. 2) in the latest in a series of tit-for-tat punishments. As workers scramble to close the building in time, acrid black smoke began billowing out of its chimney, according to local news reports. When firefighters showed up to investigate, […]

There’s evidence that the US labor market is recovering: The number of jobs created has beat expectations, unemployment claims have steadily fallen, the unemployment rate is remarkably low, and the job-quitting rate is up. Private-sector jobs rose by 237,000 in August, the largest gain in the past five months. Yet, ahead of the Bureau of […]

“Holy shit.” The disembodied voice in the video comes over a military helicopter’s comms system. The speaker, who isn’t identified, is looking down over Rockport, Texas. A costal community of homes on cul-de-sacs, most with their own docks, Rockport was once home to around 10,000 people. Now most of the houses don’t have roofs. Rockport […]Read More

The Indian economy is unable to shrug off the after-effects of the disruptive demonetisation of two key currency notes by the Modi government. In the April-June quarter of financial year 2018 (Q1FY18), India’s GDP grew at 5.7%—the slowest in the past three years. India lost its title as the world’s fastest-growing major economy in the […]Read More

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has drawn criticism in recent months as its new chairman, former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, pushes to roll back key provisions of current net neutrality rules. The rules, which first went into place in 2010, require internet service providers like Verizon to offer equal access to all web content; […]

The effects of Hurricane Harvey are already showing up in US gas prices. The record-setting storm barreled through the production chain that makes it possible for drivers all over the country to fuel up, from offshore oil platforms to gasoline pipelines. On Wednesday (Aug. 31), nearly 20% of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico […]