The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt Work, society and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence.

Reading Time: 7 minutes The disastrous Google+ shutdown vividly demonstrates the risks of trusting our creations and relationships to big corporations.

Reading Time: 1 minute Interview with Kai-Fu Lee, the leading voice of artificial intelligence in China.

Reading Time: 1 minute Open source software has gone through three phases as it evolved into its current cloud delivery.

Reading Time: 1 minute Decentralization requires the nature of applications to evolve from silos to shared views.

Reading Time: 1 minute Machine learning is a new type of vision, akin to the telescope and microscope, full of new insights into the underlying behavior of physical reality.

Reading Time: 1 minute Machine learning helps identify bias in Google's image recognition algorithms by looking at images of toilets from around the world.

Reading Time: 2 minutes The shift in global intelligence from a purely biological phenomenon to a newly emergent, synthetic intelligence from the realm of knowledge.

Reading Time: 1 minute Google Duplex is live in a number of cities, using voice recognition and speech synthesis to interact with local businesses on your behalf.