27 2025 October
Can The Ring Camera Eliminate Neighborhood Crime In 12 Months?
Thanks to advancements in AI and the ubiquity of the Ring household doorbell cameras, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes we might be twelve months away...
Read Now22 2025 October
The Next Generation of Gig Work Will Be Microtasking
This week Uber announced that they will have a new offering where gig works can choose to take on “microtasks” such as training AI models...
Read Now09 2025 October
Beyond Self Driving, Future Cars May Be Emotionally Attuned Too
For all the attention on self-driving capabilities of cars coming in the future, there is a wave of research happening now into vehicle-driver interactions that is yielding...
Read Now01 2025 October
Why the Podcast Company Making 5000 Episodes of AI-Slop a Week May Be Good News
Yesterday I listened to a podcast called Garden featuring Nigel Thistledown, a self-described “garden enthusiast, botanical provocateur and occasional mediator of bird-plant disputes.” The podcast...
Read Now26 2025 September
An Insider Perspective on What Happened to Silicon Valley
One of the long reads from this month’s WIRED magazine offers an insider account to the shift that’s happened within Silicon Valley and particularly to the ideals...
Read Now25 2025 September
The New Science of the Trend Towards Grey Divorces
Couples that get divorced later in life when their children are already adults was once a rarely studied field—particularly the effects on those adult children...
Read Now23 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Design for a Radically Changing World by Diane Hoskins and Andy Cohen
The offices (or coffee shops) we work in, bridges we drive across, and temples we pray in were all imagined, designed, and built by architects....
Read Now19 2025 September
The Clever Secret Message Behind South Park’s Delayed Episode
There was a new episode scheduled for South Park on Comedy Central last night. It never aired. When the announcement was made, it came alongside this...
Read Now17 2025 September
The Long-Awaited AI Copyright Payday May Soon Arrive
For years now, publishers in all categories of media have been fighting a battle with AI firms to be compensated for their content that was...
Read Now16 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Shape of Wonder by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees
A book like this shouldn’t really be necessary. If we all had a shared understanding of why science matters, what it is and all the...
Read Now15 2025 September
Anonymity Is Dead. Are We All Really Content Now?
A CEO caught on a kiss cam having an affair isn’t just the latest social media story gone unexpectedly viral. It’s also an indication of...
Read Now02 2025 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
If you thought, like I did, that many of the negative impacts that Facebook has had on our culture from failing to curb the spread...
Read Now07 2025 August
The Book on How NOT To Use AI Is Being Written Right Now
European payment network Klarna was one of the first fintech companies to go all in on AI. They were even featured as a case study by OpenAI....
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