Category: Technology
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How innovation works
THERE’S a scene in The Simpsons in which Homer’s half-brother Herb unveils his new invention – a machine for translating baby talk – and Homer tells him: “People are afraid of new things. You should have taken an existing product and put a clock in it…” This article first appeared in The Guardian magazine on 7…
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Bill Gates on the pandemic
IN 2015, the American technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates warned that humanity wasn’t ready for a pandemic. Seven years on, as the world emerges (hopefully) from a pandemic for which it wasn’t ready, he thinks we have it within our power to make sure this one was the last. There will be more disease outbreaks,…
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AI triumphs at bridge
AN artificial intelligence has beaten eight world champions at bridge, a game in which human supremacy has resisted the march of the machines until now… This article first appeared in The Guardian on 29 March 2022. To continue reading, click here.