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Harland Quarrington/Wikimedia CommonsThat goes for me too. Maybe especially for me. I’ve done my fair share of freaking out about AI both in conversations with friends and colleagues as well as right here, in writing, in past columns. Perhaps saying “freaking out” is a bit hyperbolic, but let’s roll with that. -
Science journalist John Farrell provides a list of tech gifts from medieval times in his book, The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without.
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Ever put something up on social media, then obsessively check for the next few hours to see if anyone "liked" it? If so, you're not alone. The current age… -
You've probably heard about people who try to avoid using plastic for a month, or who spend a year not buying products from China. But a month not using… -
The concept of money you never touch is a little easier to understand in the age of debit cards. But Bitcoin? Virtual wallets? Cryptocurrencies? It takes… -
Smart meters are being installed in place of the old analog "wheel" meters in the region by Pacific Power. But not without a fight, in some cases. There's… -
The future may or may not look like the "Terminator" movies, but our machines are certainly making inroads. We've had drones stop responding to commands,… -
Many of the activities that once kept people busy in rural areas just require fewer people now. So it's hard to keep people down on the farm (or forest).… -
One of our country's leading car-hire companies does not own the cars it hires. Likewise, some of the major players in the overnight lodging business do… -
The tech industry is so dominated by males that some people have taken to calling its workers "brogrammers." But a closer look reveals women who made key… -
"Another cup of coffee, ma'am?" Stop and ask yourself if it would make a difference to you who asked that: person or machine. Because those days may be…
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Franklin Foer DOES have a Facebook page, but he hasn't updated it in nearly a year. Which should come as no surprise once you hear his issues with… -
It's not just a TV-show trope that many of the people working at writing computer programs are male. It's a fact in real life, and one that Reshma Saujani… -
Cellphones are in just about everybody's hands or pockets these days, and we've gotten used to having them around. We just notice less when people pull…
