Can Techie Parents Reinvent School For Everyone – Or Just Their Rich Kids?

by The Kynd Gentleman

Silicon Valley veterans are ditching fast-track careers and going all-in with their time and money as they reimagine education for their children.

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15 Secretive Places You Can Now See on Google Earth (And 3 You Can’t)

by The Kynd Gentleman

The advent of easily-accessible satellite imagery in the form of Google Maps and Google Earth has likely raised some security experts’ blood pressure over the

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AI RESEARCH IS IN DESPERATE NEED OF AN ETHICAL WATCHDOG

by The Kynd Gentleman

ABOUT A WEEK ago, Stanford University researchers posted online a study on the latest dystopian AI: They’d made a machine learning algorithm that essentially works

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Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT

by The Kynd Gentleman

Amazon is working on building a pair of smart glasses to house its Alexa voice assistant, and a home security camera that could be linked

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Can marijuana rescue coal country?

by The Kynd Gentleman

Johnsie Gooslin spent Jan. 16, 2015, tending his babies — that’s what he called his marijuana plants. More than 70 of them were growing in

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A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution

by The Kynd Gentleman

Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it.

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Who Will Clean Up Silicon Valley’s E-Wasteland?

by The Kynd Gentleman

There’s no federal law requiring e-waste to be recycled, and procedures nationwide are often fragmented and cumbersome.

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Roomba maker iRobot plans to sell digital maps of your home

by The Kynd Gentleman

While iRobot may have originated as a bomb-disposal robot maker at MIT in 1990, the company is probably better known as a robot vacuum company.

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Plastic Plucking Robots Are The Future

by The Kynd Gentleman

We are living in the Age of Plastic. In 2015, the world’s industries created 448 million tons of it — twice as much as it

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3 Ways Happy People Vent Differently

by The Kynd Gentleman

Complaining isn’t usually the most productive way to handle a bad situation and, in fact, can actually make matters worse.

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FDA Opens Genetic Floodgates with 23andMe Decision

by The Kynd Gentleman

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told gene-testing company 23andMe that it will be allowed to directly tell consumers whether their DNA puts them

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