Journal

Irish Wind Energy invokes JFK, Nike’s favorite player, and Monster Energy’s own Fury Road.

Well, we made it. Two thousand and sixteen. THE FUTURE. You guys look great, really. I mean, the holiday hangover of adjusting to a socially acceptable daily caloric intake and not binge-watching How To Make A Murderer in the middle of the day aside, this year is just full of possibility. And here we are, together again, hand in hand, gazing into each other’s eyes, about to wrap ourselves in the warm, welcoming embrace of brand creativity. Too much? Onward!

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Summit meeting comes amid growing concerns of radicalization via social media.

Representatives from the Obama administration, U.S. intelligence officials, and members of law enforcement will meet today with top executives from some of the country’s biggest tech firms to discuss the ongoing concern of how terrorists have become adept at using social media to recruit members and converts online, according to Reuters.

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The material could enable self-warming clothes and even increase the driving range of electric vehicles.

Imagine a sweater that could automatically increase its temperature on command. You’d no longer have to worry about grabbing an extra jacket when you go out at night in case it gets chillier. Or what about a windshield that can warm up on its own to automatically clear ice away? Both sound like things you might have glimpsed in Back to the Future 2, but each could soon be a reality thanks to a new material.

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Nearly a decade working in corporate fashion led the founders of Cienne to seek out a radical new business model.

When apparel designer Nicole Heim quit her job at Victoria’s Secret three years ago, she wanted to get as far away from the drudgery of the corporate fashion world as possible. She wound up in Ethiopia, working for the non-profit Charity: Water. “It was kind of crazy, I was by myself with almost no resources in the mountains in Ethiopia,” she says. “One day I saw Ethiopian weavers prepping their looms in the same way they have for centuries, and it got me interested to see if we could adapt that in a modern way.”

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Watch this inspiring video that shows elderly people who won’t be ignored—even by the post office.

“Seat and window now. Seat and window now!” That’s the chant of a group of senior citizen protesters marching on the Manhattanville Post Office on Harlem’s 125th Street in New York City. Their beef? The post office has no bench for senior and disabled customers to sit while they wait on very long lines, which wouldn’t be as big a problem if they had opened a promised dedicated window for them.

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The initiative is just one example of several efforts that combine crowdsourcing and computing to tackle “hard problems.”

Since late computer scientist John McCarthy came up with the term artificial intelligence back in 1955, there’s been plenty of scientific research and experimentation around achieving that goal. But we’re still a long way off from fully reproducing the complexities of the human mind, despite all the exciting AI-related experiments we are witnessing at Google (autonomous cars), Facebook (facial recognition), Microsoft (language translation) and Amazon (voice recognition).

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Use of artificial intelligence in health care to grow tenfold in 5 years, say analysts—for everything from cancer diagnosis to diet tips.

More than six billion dollars: That’s how much health care providers and consumers will be spending every year on artificial intelligence tools by 2021—a tenfold increase from today—according to a new report from research firm Frost & Sullivan. (Specifically, it will be a growth from $633.8 million in 2014 to $6,662.2 million in 2021.)

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In the dating app’s first global expansion, Tinder is gearing up to open an office in Delhi, India.

Tinder, the wildly popular dating app, is deepening its global presence with its first international office. And what better place to set up shop than India, where the app supposedly clocks 7.5 million swipes every day?

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T-Mobile started the movement away from the consumer-unfriendly arrangement and other big wireless carriers have been forced to follow suit.

The two-year phone contract, always a carrier-friendly and consumer-unfriendly arrangement, appears to be on its way out. Finally.

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Welcome to the doomed media convergence fest.

Adrianne Jeffries has been one of my favorite technology writers since the very beginning of Tabs, and she remains the person whose bullshit detector I put the most faith in. So I’m extremely pleased that she’s here today, straight from VICE’s hipster-infested Brooklyn headquarters where she edits Motherboard, to bring us the latest tech news.

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