New Carrots for Your Health Data
Insurance companies are experimenting with two strategies for motivating you to share your health information with them.
Collective Intelligence
Nike’s New Self-Lacing Shoe Has a Service Tether
Nike’s new self-lacing shoes will connect us to the cloud with a service tether.
The Amazing, Embedded Intelligence of Ants
Ants embed intelligence into their environment — kind of like we do.
Hacking Blood Sugar
Sensors in personal devices will fuel an explosion of health data and machine learning-driven personalized healthcare advice.
Structured Data or a Structured Approach to Content? Making Choices for your Business
Structured data or a structured approach to content?
Neocortex Hierarchy and Parallelism
The neocortex contains thousands of models functioning not only in hierarchy, but also in parallel.
Toxic Behavior on Wikipedia Highlighted by Machine Learning
Wikipedia is using machine learning to better understand and deal with harassment and toxic behavior.
Directly Transmitting Thoughts
A new system lets three people collaboratively play a Tetris-like game — through brain-to-brain communication.
Protecting Shared Reality on Wikipedia
Can Wikipedia survive the culture wars and protect our share reality?
Creating spaces for students and professors to read without distractions, using virtual reality to enhance academic…
Creating spaces for students and professors to read without distractions, using virtual reality to enhance academic…