In a Backchannel post, editor Steven Levy details his experience behind the wheel of one of Google’s self-driving cars.
So you want to take a self-driving car for a spin? Backchannel editor Steven Levy, who had the chance to test out Google’s crop of autonomous vehicles, published a post on Wednesday that pulls back the curtain on the company’s exclusive training center—and reveals how you, too, can get behind the wheel of a Google car.
Digital mental health is a fairly new but fast-growing field.
Apple’s HealthKit, which launched last year, is a service for people to pull together health and fitness data from their favorite apps. Apple refers to the service as the “beginning of a health revolution.”
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Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence scored big in this morning’s Oscar nominations—but what of their lesser known yet arguably more important counterparts: Leonardo DiCatrio and Jenni-purr Lawrence?
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Al Jazeera America announced yesterday that it will shut down at the end of April. In honor of the hard-hitting, award-winning journalism the good employees of AJAM presumably did, here’s a crappy explainer:
Following Obama’s bold announcement of an effort to cure cancer, the National Institutes of Health explains how it could work.
One item in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address this week overshadowed all the others: the announcement of a massive “moonshot” effort, led by Vice President Joe Biden, to cure cancer. Such a bold proclamation naturally begets a few questions, and the government started answering them today in a call with reporters by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which includes the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
During Thursday’s GOP debate, the party’s top contender butted heads with his rivals over how incoming Chinese goods should be taxed.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump clashed with rivals Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush during Thursday’s Republican debate over his proposal to set a tariff on Chinese goods.
The GOP presidential candidate also proposed offering liability relief to tech companies that share data with law enforcement officials.
At the tail end of a sixth Republican presidential debate, dominated by personal feuds and mutual condemnation of the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush made a stunning proposal: Put the NSA in charge of civilian data and cybersecurity.
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