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Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game
The New York Times: Brittni Daron jumped through a lot of hoops before she landed her job as a solution consultant at Oracle. At the tech giant, as at other firms in Silicon Valley to
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Know Thy Avatar: Good and Evil in the Gaming World
The Huffington Post: The 2013 Ben Stiller film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a remake of a 1947 Danny Kaye movie of the same name, which was itself based on a popular James
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Facebook Snooping on Job Candidates May Backfire for Employers
Scientific American: It’s 2014, which means that Facebook will be 10 years old this February. Since the site launched it has become standard procedure for companies to screen job candidates based on their social media
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Feeling mad? New devices can sense your mood and tell — or even text — others.
The Washington Post: Cognitive psychologist Mary Czerwinski and her boyfriend were having a vigorous argument as they drove to Vancouver, B.C., from Seattle, where she works at Microsoft Research. She can’t remember the subject, but
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Hyping Artificial Intelligence, Yet Again
The New Yorker: According to the Times, true artificial intelligence is just around the corner. A year ago, the paper ran a front-page story about the wonders of new technologies, including deep learning, a neurally-inspired
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
The New York Times: Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head. I.B.M. and Qualcomm
