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Talking to a human can come with certain limits.
What we found was surprising: programmers’ worries about this technology were accompanied by excitement.
The late Christopher Alexander’s groundbreaking work on patterns has informed the development of technology for decades, but it’s the architect’s later work that holds the key to a healthier digital life.
Precocious social media users want to use technology to change the world.
Past upgrades to the state’s medical record system have cost tremendous amounts of money, and on at least one occasion, forced clinicians to revert to paper-based methods.
Google DeepMind software can diagnose eye conditions as well as human doctors – and the medical profession should welcome this.
A branch of AI research promises to deliver computers that evolve their own software but the tech industry has yet to catch on.
Stand by for drones, robots and sensors to the rescue.
Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
Software is eating everything in this online, digital world. We need to design code that uses as little energy as possible.
It’s likely that many people knew Volkswagen was cheating on emissions tests, including the engineers who built the ‘defeat device’. But why did no-one at the car maker blow the whistle?
There is enormous potential for long term and genuine change if universities change their approach to dissent – and reinvent themselves as more agile institutions.
Malcolm Turnbull has drawn on his experience in the IT industry to create a new vision of ‘agile’ government.
Google has become a technology giant, but it’s trying to keep its small-company ethos alive.
Machines are not very good at writing software from scratch, but they’re getting pretty good at improving on human efforts.














