PROFILE
FROM Cameron O'Connor
Do Androids Dream of Cocktails? Remember Watson, the IBM supercomputer who beat out a Jeopardy champion a few years back? Last week he was back, at an interactive display at South by Southwest, helping visitors with crafting cocktails and choosing gifts. Sounds fun, but what does it mean to have "cognitive computing" seeping into our daily lives?
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The New World Where do speech balloons come from? How does time move from panel to panel? This week we explore the techniques of comic-book storytelling through Chris Reynolds’s graphic series, newly anthologized as The New World. Join us as we travel deep into the artist’s world to find the source of these bizarrely mundane comics’ depth and beauty.
The Biggest Threat to Free Speech No One Is Talking About FAIR co-founder Jeff Cohen dissects the midterm elections, the failures of the mainstream media and the future of the Democratic Party.