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The Language that Stole Android Developers’ Hearts By supporting Kotlin as a “first class” language, Google scored major points with its community of developers. Hi Backchannel readers, this is Sandra. In the early 1700s, Peter the Great, the czar of Russia, was busy nabbing land from his western neighbor, the Swedish Empire. He seized the tip of the Gulf of Finland, and began building his beloved
The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world. Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all. So wrote Wired’s Chris Anderson in 2008 . It kicked up a little storm at the time, as Anderso
Covering the Web since 1994. Backchannel. NewCo Daily. Wordyard.com. Say Everything. Dreaming in Code. Grist. Mediabugs. Salon. Berkeley, CA. Real person. How Google Book Search Got Lost Google Books was the company’s first moonshot. But 15 years later, the project is stuck in low-Earth orbit. B ooks can do anything. As Franz Kafka once said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
I am the head of editorial for Backchannel. I write about the business and culture of technology. And I want to edit your stories on those topics as well. If you happen to live in one of the six million US homes that have so far purchased an Amazon Echo, you may think Alexa is just a voice emanating from a cylindrical speaker that knows a couple of tricks. It plays the Beatles on command. It can o
This is the last in a continuing series following the fortunes and foibles of Pebble. If the myth of Silicon Valley is to be believed, Eric Migicovsky should be ebullient. After all, he has failed. For the past nine years, he spent time and made time — 24/7 — with Pebble, a smartwatch company he started as a 21-year old whelp while studying abroad in the Netherlands city of Delft, known more for p
Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like the Sex Pistols The leader of MIT’s Media Lab on technological whiplash, nonviolent resistance, and the risk of Silicon Valley “floating away.” In 2011, the MIT Media Lab — the smarty-pants citadel of digital creativity — picked a college dropout named Joi Ito as its director. It was a puzzling choice only to those who didn’t know him. Born in Japan and r
How the Web Became Unreadable I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design. I t’s been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. I’ve caught myself squinting and holding the screen closer to my face. I’ve worried that my eyesight is starting to go. These hurdles have made me grumpier over time, but what pushed me over the edge was when Go
An exclusive inside look at how artificial intelligence and machine learning work at Apple On July 30, 2014, Siri had a brain transplant. Three years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system. Siri was the company’s adaptation of a standalone app it had purchased, along with the team that created it, in 2010. Initial reviews were
If you want to build artificial intelligence into every product, you better retrain your army of coders. Check. Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. Not in the martial arts — she’s already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. This time it’s algorithmic. Holgate is several weeks into a program that will inculcate her in an even more powerful practice tha
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