Tech News update Recycling air pollution to make art | Social Aug 12, 2018 On a break from his studies in the MIT Media Lab, Anirudh Sharma SM ’14 traveled home to Mumbai, India. While there, he noticed that throughout the…
Tech News update China’s Didi Chuxing is close to launching a taxi-booking service in Japan | AI Aug 12, 2018 Days after raising $500 million via a strategic investment from travel giant Booking Holdings, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has continued…
Tech News update Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination | Social Aug 12, 2018 Overt racism is easy to spot. But it takes patience and perspective to identify microaggressions — behaviors that systematically degrade or exclude…
Tech News update ‘Stories’ was Instagram’s smartest move yet | Social Aug 12, 2018 Can it become Facebook’s next big business? Two years ago, Instagram did something that felt a little desperate: It copied the best product from a…
Tech News update Why Snapchat is shrinking | Social Aug 12, 2018 Snap lost users for the first time ever last quarter, and that’s concerning. Snapchat’s user base shrank by three million people last quarter, the…
Tech News update Bring this robot to a disco, and it’ll dance with you | Robotics Aug 12, 2018 If you’re one who thinks the ability to dance is severely missing from modern robotics, the fine folks over at ETH Zurich’s Department of Mechanical…
Tech News update FLI May, 2018 Newsletter Tech| AI Aug 12, 2018 THE NEW YORKER: How Frightened Should We Be of A.I.?“Thinking about artificial intelligence can help clarify what makes us human—for better and for…
Tech News update Best free iPad games 2018 | Computing Aug 12, 2018 So you’ve got an iPad, but have come to the dawning realisation that you’ve got no cash left to buy any games for it. Have no fear, because the App…
Tech News update Inventing the “Google” for predictive analytics | Social Aug 12, 2018 Companies often employ number-crunching data scientists to gather insights such as which customers want certain services or where to open new stores…
Tech News update Could an AI book your next vacation? | Innovation & Feature Aug 12, 2018 For Tien Nguyen, Chief Technology Officer at Wego, travel is something of a second nature. In the last eight years, the company has risen to become…