Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.
Wired From ACM News | November 18, 2016
From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.Wired From ACM News | November 11, 2016
Dystopian corporte surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers...Wired From ACM News | November 4, 2016
There's a reason Tesla and its competitors use the term "autopilot" for their semi-autonomous cars: Aviation is way ahead of the auto industry when it comes to...Wired From ACM News | November 2, 2016
In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone.Wired From ACM News | October 28, 2016
Last week ended with a mid-level internet catastrophe. You may have noticed that for most of Friday popular sites like Netflix, Twitter, Spotify (and yes, WIRED)...Wired From ACM News | October 27, 2016
Amid a seemingly incessant deluge of leaks and hacks, Washington, DC staffers have learned to imagine how even the most benign email would look a week later on...Wired From ACM News | October 18, 2016
Something funny happens when your computer or phone can’t display a font: A blank rectangular box pops up in place of the missing glyph.Wired From ACM News | October 7, 2016
In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...Wired From ACM News | October 4, 2016
This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.Wired From ACM News | September 23, 2016
A cellphone makes a convenient detonator for an improvised explosive device. But it's also one of the most conveniently trackable devices under the eye of American...Wired From ACM News | September 19, 2016
More than six months have passed since the FBI first ordered Apple to help the agency bypass the encryption on the iPhone 5c of Rizwan Syed Farook, an ISIS supporter...Wired From ACM News | September 19, 2016
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field.Wired From ACM News | September 9, 2016
Apple's refusal to comply with a court order to help the FBI crack an iPhone highlighted the pressure tech companies face to include backdoors in their software...Wired From ACM News | August 15, 2016