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Emergency response is no longer just about what happens on the ground. Social media chaos gives crises an online life of their own. The post Training for the Day a Tweet Dictates Where to Send SWAT appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Building a billion-dollar startup in a few years doesn’t exactly breed patience. But techies are finding there’s no one hack for political change. The post Tech Alone Won’t Be Enough to Reboot Progressive Politics appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Self-driving cars have it easy—streets are mostly orderly, predictable places. Sidewalks, on the other hand … . The post The Crazy-Hard Technical Challenges of Robots Delivering Falafel appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Online advertising is terrible. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The post Stronger Privacy Laws Could Save Advertising From Itself appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Opinion: To address job losses due to automation, we need training, not new taxes. The post Bill Gates Is Wrong: The Solution to AI Taking Jobs Is Training, Not Taxes appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

What an AI cannot create, it does not understand. The post Google’s Dueling Neural Networks Spar to Get Smarter, No Humans Required appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

The deal is yet another sign that Microsoft is a very different company than it was just three years ago. The post Ever Heard of the Startup Deis? Well, Microsoft Certainly Did appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Facebook joins with the founder of Craigslist to fix a crisis of faith in the news, but questions remain about who should shoulder the blame. The post Facebook Pushes News Literacy to Combat a Crisis of Trust appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

Should you sign up? That depends. The post Comcast’s New Mobile Service Is a Good Deal, But Maybe Not Good Enough appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico

WIRED has learned that the new CEO, who holds a 50 percent stake in the brand, appears to have bolstered his reputation with credentials he didn’t earn. The post Arduino’s New CEO, Federico Musto, May Have Fabricated His Academic Record appeared first on WIRED. Powered by WPeMatico