Baidu Breaks Off an AI Alliance Amid Strained US-China Ties
Chinese search giant Baidu has left The Partnership on AI (PAI), a US-led effort to foster collaboration on the ethical challenges raised by artificial intelligence. Baidu is said to have…
Google’s new Chrome extension lets you link directly to specific text on a page
Link to Text Fragment is a new Chrome Extension from Google that lets you generate URLs to specific text on a webpage, regardless of the page’s formatting. With the extension…
Amazon to stream Premier League soccer free on Twitch
Amazon will start streaming live Premier League football (soccer) games free on Twitch later this month. Twitch viewers in the UK will be able to access four matches, starting with…
Ford’s hands-free driving feature won’t be available until late 2021
Ford announced late last year that the Mustang Mach-E will be the company’s first car to allow hands-free driving in certain situations. Today, the company is opening up about how…
Turning off political ads on Facebook could have unpredictable consequences
Programming note: The Interface is off on Thursday. Back on Monday. It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time when political advertising was relatively uncontroversial. Sure, individual…
News at 11: Kid Reporters Tackle the Coronavirus
The day after San Francisco closed its schools, I noticed right away two children in my house. They were my children, I observed—not off getting educated but here in my…
Live Wrong and Prosper: Covid-19 and the Future of Families
The last commune I lived in, back in London in 2015, was a dilapidated former storage warehouse where, technically, two or three people were supposed to be living as “caretakers.”…
What Will Science, Tech, and Life Look Like After Covid-19?
The passage of time during this pandemic has often felt immeasurably, unbearably slow. But the transformations we’ve been living through are, by any historic measure, lightning fast. A crisis can…
After the Virus: How We’ll Learn, Age, Move, Listen, and Create
Art teaches us to live a life that has meaning, by accepting the responsibility of becoming aware. Inside our little beehives, we are now growing more attentive. We’re paying attention…
How to Make Government Trustworthy Again
On January 20, both the United States and South Korea confirmed their first cases of Covid-19; Taiwan reported its first case the next day, and Singapore followed two days later.…