Why trust Facebook with our history?
Scott Rosenberg discusses the digital records we leave of our day-to-day existence,…
Modeling the brain: Hardware’s not the issue
If computing continues its exponential growth, within 15 years the most powerful…
Singularity: Is the brain too complex to model?
We'd been through eight hours of lectures at the Singularity Summit, talks…
Posterous DOS attack. Someone should write the story
I have a blog on Posterous, a very interesting and agile Web…
Advertiser Tracking on the Rise
The Wall Street Journal publishes a report today (behind firewall) on cookies,…
Ask.com Tries Different Question-Answering
One of the common (and mistaken) assumptions about IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer, Watson,…
Smart systems, dumb ones, and privacy
Everywhere I talk about the Numerati, I find people worrying about the…
Data mining competition: HIV progression
Kaggle, a data-prediction company, is inviting numerati the world over to mine…