Technology Commentary

Lessons for AI Governance from Corporate Governance

Technology leaders are nervous about the ability of low-code and no-code applications to solve key business challenges.

What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.

“The US pay-TV industry lost a record 2.31 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2023,” Lightreading reports, pointing to a report from MoffettNathanson. “For Cable in particular, video…

Adam Wuerl gets mixed results from ChatGPT on a reliability engineering problem.

Insights into productivity & society, tools for academic compiling, and new password protection options.

To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.

This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team of anonymous researchers examined a number of studies co-authored by Gino, because we had concerns that they contained fraudulent data. We discovered evidence...

Keeping apace with changes in technology can drive a person mad, especially as the speed of technological shifts seems to be increasing constantly. Indeed that state-of-art piece of shiny tech that…

I’ve written about the Alphasmart before, but David Kadavy explains succinctly why it’s so good: the creative focus of a typewriter, and you get a text file. The things that are crappy …

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

Elon Musk’s automatic driving technology seems to be roughly an order of magnitude more deadly than human drivers.

Why children’s radio—a format once important enough that Disney undermined a competitor to dominate the radio dial—has largely disappeared from the airwaves.

Keeping them from colliding with each other.

What is C++? In this article, we explore the history of C++, its key features and advantages, and real-world examples of its applications.

After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...

A new Harris Poll shared with Fast Company indicates that Americans are yearning for a time before constant connectivity.

Self-hosting is effective for many companies. But when is it time to let go and try the easier way?

The benefits of using operators are straightforward: less time spent on manual processes, more time spent on coding and innovation.

Scientists publish papers in refereed journals and conferences: they write up their results and we ask anonymous referees to assess it. If the work is published, presumably because the anonymous referees found nothing objectionable, the published paper joins the “literature”. It is not a strict requirement: you can do excellent research without publishing in refereed … Continue reading Citogenesis in science and the importance of real problems

The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power, and why the online safety bill may be unworkable

How to find documentation right on z/OS using man pages

Seeing what would happen in a world where NAT was never invented.

Once upon a time, in the dawn of the internet era, web products came from college dudes. The dudes were almost always wealthy and well-connected, but they weren’t usually market-savvy. These …