It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and…
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In 2017, I returned to Canada from Sweden, where I had spent a year working on automation in mining. Shortly after…
When I saw the news that Apple would be releasing 217 new emojis into the world, I did what I always do:…
Google “What is Clubhouse?” and you’ll find a flurry of articles written in the past few weeks about this fast-growing…
Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan blasted off from the Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon in their lunar module Challenger on December 14 1972.…
The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to…
With one in four of us expected to experience a mental health problem at any one time, increasing access to treatment has…
Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these…
Agriculture’s impact on the planet is massive and relentless. Roughly 40 per cent of the Earth’s suitable land surface is…
In denying news content to its Australian users, Facebook is arguably overplaying its hand, behaving as a big company that thinks…