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Business, Spoken

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Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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How Big Is AI? Obama Sees It as a New Kind of Moonshot

President Barack Obama envisions AI as the next Apollo program—an $80 billion effort shepherded by the US government. But not too much shepherding. In his interview with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, President Obama said that the government should facilitate a range of research in artificial intelligence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 20, 2016•6 min

Silicon Valley’s New-Age AltSchool Unleashes Its Secrets

AltSchool isn't just for AltSchool anymore. Since its founding in 2014, with backing from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen Horowitz, and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, the San Francisco startup has opened eight of its new-age AltSchools in the Bay Area and New York City. It sees these as mini educational labs where it's working to create a new kind of personalized educational for the 21st century, and now, the company is sharing its philosophies with the outside world. Learn about your ad ...

Oct 18, 2016•3 min

Trump TV Isn’t Coming. It’s Already Here

Donald Trump says that the Presidential election is rigged against him and that the news media unfairly treats him and his many supporters. So, naturally, the rumor is that Trump is now planning to launch his own television network after all the votes are counted in November. According to The Financial Times, citing multiple unnamed sources, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has contacted a top media dealmaker about the possibility of Trump TV. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-c...

Oct 17, 2016•3 min

Immigrants Fuel Innovation. Let’s Not Waste Their Potential

Noe arrived in the United States after a treacherous two-month journey to flee El Salvador. He hiked through the jungle, rode on top of trains, slept on the streets of Mexico City, and trekked through the desert. Eventually he made it to San Francisco. When Noe enrolled in high school, he discovered a passion—and a valuable talent—for chemistry and calculus. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 17, 2016•8 min

Tinder Taps Its Inner Vegas to Predict Swipe Rights

In this post-Tinder world, your profile picture is everything. The world swipes right (acceptance!) or swipes left (rejection!) based solely on what your photo looks like. Not what you look like. What your photo looks like. So, when hunting for dates and other forms of conjugation, you better get that photo right. Your future could hinge on whether you choose the pic where you're hugging the labradoodle or the one where you're hiking through the woods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.o...

Oct 14, 2016•6 min

We Must Remake Society in the Coming Age of AI: Obama

Artificial intelligence can bring enormous prosperity and opportunity. President Obama knows that. But in an interview with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, the president also worries that AI could suppress wages, eliminate jobs, and create new inequalities. As we build new forms of AI, he says, we must also develop new economic and social models that can ensure these technologies don't leave people behind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-ch...

Oct 13, 2016•4 min

Amazon Is Opening Grocery Stores So You Don’t Have to Shop in Them

Why is Amazon opening brick-and-mortar grocery stories? Because it wants to dominate groceries online. Yes, Amazon is opening a string of physical groceries-or at least that's the word from The Wall Street Journal, which cites multiple anonymous sources familiar with the matter. According to the paper, Amazon calls this Project Como, and the first store is planned for the company's home city of Seattle, Washington. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Oct 12, 2016•3 min

Filing Taxes Should Be as Easy as Ordering Pizza, Obama Says

The Situation Room is not as gee-whiz as you think it is. Take it from someone who knows: President Obama. "I always imagined the Situation Room would be this super cool thing, it'd be like Tom Cruise in The Minority Report," Obama, the guest editor of WIRED's November issue, said during a lengthy interview with Joi Ito of MIT's Media Lab and Editor-in-Chief Scott Dadich. "It's not like that at all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Oct 12, 2016•3 min

Facebook Still Wants to Muscle In On Your Work Life

One in four people on Earth use Facebook to connect with friends and family. But Mark Zuckerberg and company really want all those people to use the social network for office chatter, too. This morning, at an event in London, the company formally released Facebook Workplace, a service designed specifically for business communication. It first unveiled the service-originally called Facebook for Work-eighteen months ago, testing it with many businesses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.or...

Oct 12, 2016•4 min

The Real-Time Crack-Up of the GOP Is Happening Right Now on Twitter

After nominating Donald Trump, the Republican party was always going to face a reckoning. But, no matter who won, that reckoning was supposed to happen after Election Day. Well, it's come early. And it's unfolding in real-time on Twitter. Less than a month before polls open, the GOP nominee is in open political warfare with his party. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 11, 2016•6 min

Meet Mike Pence, the Veep Who Could Run Trump’s America

Yes, tonight's vice presidential debate sounds about as rousing as a lukewarm cup of Sleepytime tea. Mike Pence and Tim Kaine aren't known for their colorful personalities, or known that much at all. (One recent poll found that more than 40 percent of Americans can't even name either vice presidential candidate). And why should anyone care? Vice presidents don't have that much power anyway, right? But the next vice president might. If Trump wins, Pence might end up running the show. Learn about ...

Oct 10, 2016•6 min

The Google Lab That’s Building a Legion of Diverse Coders

When the doors to Code Next opened in Oakland today, Errol King knew the hard work of launching a community computer lab was a prelude to a far greater challenge. Google launched the lab in one of the nation's most diverse cities to introduce black and Latino students to coding and help reverse the tech sector's persistent lack of diversity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 07, 2016•5 min

Clarifai Wants You to Correct AI’s Biggest Gaffes

Artificial intelligence can do remarkable things, like recognize faces on social networks, instantly translate speech from one language to another, and identify commands barked into a smartphone. But it also can do stupid things, like label an African-American couple "gorillas." The artificial intelligence underpinning Google Photos did just that last year. The platform uses deep neural networks to identify images in your photo collection. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Oct 06, 2016•4 min

Google Fiber Eyes A Bigger Chunk of The Airwaves

Google Fiber wants a better way of beaming the Internet into apartment buildings. On Friday, the company filed a document with the Federal Communications Commission arguing that the agency should ease access to a chunk of wireless spectrum that could serve the ambitions of Google Fiber, the company's ultra-high-speed Internet service. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 05, 2016•3 min

Zuckerberg and Chan Promise $3 Billion to Cure Every Disease

Over the next decade, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan say they will invest $3 billion in a sweeping effort to cure all diseases in the lifetime of today's children. "We are at the limit of our ability to alleviate suffering," Chan, a pediatrician, said this morning at an event in San Francisco. "We want to push back at that boundary. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Oct 03, 2016•3 min

Google Work Apps Gain New Powers, But Microsoft Still Rules

This week, Google retooled Google Apps for Work, signaling the company's ever-deepening interest in the enterprise market. It makes sense: the opportunities for growth are enormous, as is the competition. Apple continues to leverage its partnership with IBM to muscle its way in. Facebook will reportedly soon launch its business-focused Facebook at Work. And Microsoft still reigns, thanks to its entrenched Office apps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Oct 03, 2016•4 min

Tech Giants Team Up to Keep AI From Getting Out of Hand

Let's face it: artificial intelligence is scary. After decades of dystopian science fiction novels and movies where sentient machines end up turning on humanity, we can't help but worry as real world AI continues to improve at such a rapid rate. Sure, that danger is probably decades away if it's even a real danger at all. But there are many more immediate concerns. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 01, 2016•5 min

Google Is Ripe for Trump’s Sore-Loser Conspiracy Theories

If you're a candidate spouting conspiracy theories from the stump after the first presidential debate, the��odds��are you didn't win. That's what Donald Trump did Thursday��when he offered���from prepared remarks, no less���the claim that Google is manipulating search results to suppress bad news about Hillary Clinton. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 01, 2016•5 min

Trump Finally Says Something Coherent About ‘the Cyber’

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday when Donald Trump was asked during a televised interview how he would deal with ISIS’s spread online he responded with a fairly incoherent answer that amounted to “the cyber is so big.” Today, during a much publicized speech on national security in Philadelphia, he said one of his first directives as president would be to “conduct a thorough review of all United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail....

Sep 29, 2016•4 min
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