Author: Jeff Francis

Cryptocurrencies are booming, but should you invest? Only if you heed 2008's lessons and vet your investments as deeply as a hedge fund does. Read More

Google's top A.I. team has discovered a new architecture for a neural network that could be faster and more efficient — capsule networks. Read More

Algorithms control our digital lives and power the world's most successful businesses. But, they're biased — and so is everything they power. Read More

After shellacking the top Go player in the world, AlphaGo is on to its next feat — beating its past self over and over and over again. Read More

Harvey Weinstein is on a long list of powerful men who used their position to prey on the vulnerable — what our industry must learn from it. Read More

In a rare historical anomaly, Apple was the first major player to release a digital voice assistant (Siri). How has it fallen so behind then? Read More

So you're using some machine learning? That's great! But don't go thinking you're an AI company just yet — Andrew Ng sets the record straight. Read More

Voice-recognition is the interface of the future. Learn about the Googler who's trying to make it tiny, cheap, efficient and disposable. Read More

Facebook may be aiming its A.I. prowess at a voice-based assistant. Should Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft be worried? In a word: yes. Read More

The U.S. is out of the top 3 in supercomputing for only the second time in the last 2+ decades. Oak Ridge's Summit supercomputer, coming online in 2018, is set to change all that... Read More