Stuart Russell wrote his first artificial intelligence program nearly half a century ago. Aged 12, he taught his calculator how to play noughts and crosses. Now
No one is safe at Elon Musk’s Twitter, it seems. Not even those who made it onto a hallowed “do not fire” list drawn up by the billionaire and his lieutenants.
Wall Street loves nothing more than when people get fired. Witness last week’s events. Goldman Sachs broke the bad news to 3,200 of its staff across the wo
Squint and you might think that not much has changed for Sam Bankman-Fried. The 30-year-old crypto tycoon spends his days hanging out at his parents’ $4 million
Chuck Wild is, in a way, just what you would expect from a man whose job is to put people to sleep. The 76-year-old sleep music star shows up at the airport nea
When a technological breakthrough explodes onto the world, it is often hard to communicate its true importance. Its majesty, if you will. So why not leave it to
Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist and creator of Netscape, the
browser that launched the internet era, once said: “Every failed idea from the
The media industry isn’t that hard, apparently. Just ask Nick Johnston,
publisher of the six-year-old digital news start-up Axios. “Just do good
journalism,” h
Silicon Valley revels in its role as a disruptor. So perhaps it should come as
little surprise that amid the “great resignation”, when other companies are lavi
As stock markets crashed this year, Robinhood, the free stock-trading app loved
by Gen Z, introduced a cash card. Amid a dramatic end to a 13-year bull market t
Richard Heart spooned a dollop of $600-an-ounce albino sturgeon caviar out of
its gold tin and shovelled it into his mouth. “In honour of the bear market, I
am
Not long ago, Zello, an app that turns a mobile phone into a “push to talk”
walkie- talkie, was just one app among thousands in Russia’s smartphone app
stores.
Phyllis Gardner had seen it all. The tenured professor at Stanford University’s
medical school in California, her salty wit always cocked and ready to fire a zi
A lab technician turns a knob near the back of my neck, tightening onto my skull
a helmet packed with enough lasers to make a Storm Trooper jealous. “How’s that
Elon Musk had a year for the ages. Last Wednesday, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship
delivered a full turkey dinner and other supplies to the International Space
Stat
Contrary to what you may think, getting old is not inevitable. And by getting
old, I mean the bad parts: weakened muscles, fading memory, aching joints ... or
Andy Bird was in Laos when a headhunter rang about Pearson, the FTSE 100 group.
Or was it Cambodia? He can’t recall. “I was probably in a modest hotel, waiting