Last summer, Saadeh and Rapp face the moment of truth. Six months after the procedure, the patient cautiously leaned on his leg after surgery, placing all his weight on it for the first time. The limbs are strongly organized. That is an encouraging sign. Over the next few months, she had to be on crutches, … Read more
Could machine learning outweigh human surveillance in Apple Music? (Bloomberg / Getty Images)Hello, National Backchannel. Steven here. Have fun at the end of the summer (though who is happy about that?). This week I wrote about Apple and AI. If you’ve followed Backchannel, you know we covered it closely the proliferation of machine learning, as … Read more
Using a beeper to spy on a suspect is a conceptual story of placing an eavesdropping device in a telephone booth. Then it’s all about intensifying observations of a single space, waiting for a suspect to move into it. A beep involves observing a device owned by a person, tracking a suspect’s movements. In 1983, … Read more
HR is never for you. That’s why it doesn’t work. Last month, I joined the sold-out audience at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco for an evening of conversation between two class women: Hill Anita and Ellen Pao. The idea was to have two women of different eras, with similar stories, compare notes about the … Read more
According to Samuel Redman, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, bone trade and colonialism have long been parallel, evidence can be seen in large collections of human remains in museums. Europe and America. In his book, Skeletons: From scientific racism to the prehistoric times of humanity in the museumHe proposed that a … Read more
I, for one, will welcome our robot referee leaders, at least when it comes to calling the ball and hitting. Automatic strike zone will come, probably within the next three seasons, and I’m here for it. If you’ve spent any time on Twitter during baseball season, especially post-season over the past few years, you may … Read more
Suppose, a relative of a person who is killed on the job can receive a compensation similar to how much money he or she can earn in a lifetime. Of course, that’s not fair at all – why is the family of a coal miner killed in a cave getting less compensation than the family … Read more
The History of Poop Is Really The History of Technology Sure it was crude, but human expertise in chemistry allowed for the success of agriculture – and the rise of civilization.
