Why Is Google Slow-Walking Its Breakthroughs in AI?

Google became what it is by creating advanced new technology and throwing it open to all. Giant businesses and individuals alike can use the company’s search and email services, or tap its targeting algorithms and vast audience for ad campaigns. Yet Google’s progress on artificial intelligence now appears to have the company rethinking its do-what-you-will…

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How to Lock Down Your Health and Fitness Data

Whether you're a Fitbit user worried about Google's recent $2.1 billion purchase of the company or just generally privacy conscious, you should pay attention to where your health and fitness data goes, and who has access. It's among the most sensitive data you have.While you unfortunately can't control where all of your health information goes—as…

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Drawing With Drones Over the Salt Flats of Bolivia

Reuben Wu has photographed some of the world’s most remote and extreme places: Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico, the Arctic tundra of Norway, Peru’s Pastoruri glacier. But few locations compare to the site of his latest project, Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni. Stretching across more than 4,000 square miles of South America’s…

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Uber’s Mistakes, ‘Ford v Ferrari,’ and More Car News

We’re all about the future here at WIRED.com. But sometimes we take a look back. This week, we ran an excerpt from a new book that did just that, by examining how one psychologist’s tireless investigation into WWII plane crashes inadvertently created an entire new field of study, and one that contributed directly to everyone’s…

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Who Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs? The Middle-Aged

Back in 2007, a 22-year-old Mark Zuckerberg gave some advice at Y Combinator's Startup School: Do a startup before you're old. In technology, he said, twentysomethings rule. The olds are useless.“I want to stress the importance of being young and technical,” he said. “Young people are just smarter.”That comment has not aged well. As we…

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