Hitting the Books: Tech can't fix what's broken in American policingPredPol, Clearview AI and the false promise of precognitive crime fighting.By A. Tarantola, 04.09.2023
Hitting the Books: Why America once leaded its gasolineHow else were we to eliminate engine knock -- build smaller, more efficient engines?By A. Tarantola, 02.26.2023
Hitting the Books: How Southeast Asia's largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraudMachine learning is streamlining traditional, rules-based money laundering investigations.By A. Tarantola, 09.25.2022
Hitting the Books: How much that insurance monitoring discount might really be costing youIs three percent off your monthly bill worth the loss of digital privacy?By A. Tarantola, 08.07.2022
Hitting the Books: The Soviets once tasked an AI with our mutually assured destructionThe Perimeter system would have unleashed a civilization-ending counterstrike following a US nuclear launch.By A. Tarantola, 03.27.2022
Hitting the Books: How Mildred Dresselhaus' research proved we had graphite all wrongThe STEM pioneer's experiments at MIT revolutionized our understanding of charge carriers.By A. Tarantola, 03.05.2022
Hitting the Books: What autonomous vehicles mean for tomorrow's workforceSure, Robots are taking our jobs, but at least they're coming for them slowly.By A. Tarantola, 01.22.2022
Hitting the Books: Why that one uncle of yours continually refuses to believe in climate changeor, 'How conspiracy theories can lead to science denialism.'By A. Tarantola, 10.02.2021
Hitting the Books: How biased AI can hurt users or boost a business's bottom line“Why would you build an expensive algorithm if you can’t bias it in your favor?” - former American Airlines president, Robert CrandallBy A. Tarantola, 04.10.2021
Hitting the Books: The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accentsCan a new technology really be revolutionary if it isn't universally accessible?By A. Tarantola, 04.03.2021
Hitting the Books: How Bell Labs jump-started the multimedia art movementIt was a Cold War collaboration between the worlds of art and engineering.By A. Tarantola, 12.19.2020
Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data systemWe've got to crunch the numbers to form a more perfect union.By A. Tarantola, 07.25.2020
Hitting the Books: Do we really want our robots to have consciousness?A little bit of self-awareness goes a long way.By A. Tarantola, 05.23.2020
Hitting the Books: How to be active on social media and still keep your jobSometimes a measure of self-censorship is a good thing.By A. Tarantola, 05.09.2020
Hitting the Books: Without glass, we'd have never discovered the electronBehold the birth of the cathode ray tube!By A. Tarantola, 05.02.2020
Hitting the Books: How 'universal' stem cells might fix our brainsAll it takes is a bit of genetic manipulation.By A. Tarantola, 04.18.2020
Hitting the Books: How an attempt at digital allyship fell flatWhy #CrimingWhileWhite didn't work.By A. Tarantola, 03.07.2020
Hitting the Books: Teaching AI to sing slime mold serenadesGet ready for Mozart on a microchip.By A. Tarantola, 09.28.2019
Hitting the Books: Stop pranking your kids to impress Jimmy KimmelYou're supposed to be the adult here, remember?By A. Tarantola, 09.07.2019