Eugene Passes Turing Test but Leaves Questions Unanswered »

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23 June 2014 | by Jane Whyatt, journalist and Turing Test 2014 judge

It started as a game, and now it’s been won there are some very sore losers… Alan Turing’s Imitation Game – which became the Turing Test – aimed to find out whether a ‘thinking machine’ could hold ... »

French National Assembly set up a special Digital Committee »

In a recent critique of the draft legislation, Wojcicki sought to defend her company’s opposition by claiming: “Creativity has long been a guiding force in my life.”

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18 June 2014 | Romain Seignovert, contributor

"Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according... »

The impact of advanced robotic engineering (part 2) »

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12 June 2014 | Birgit Hütten, external contributor

Robots and the Internet of Things The vast majority of machines is of highly anonymous nature and, like background music, has crept into our lives almost without anybody noticing. They include refr... »

The impact of advanced robotic engineering (part 1) »

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10 June 2014 | Birgit Hütten, external contributor

“The truck regarded them calmly, its receptors blank and impassive. It was doing its job. The planet-wide network of automatic factories was smoothly performing the task imposed on it five years befor... »

Get to know Mme Morin Desailly, French Senate’s Rapporteur »

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27 May 2014 | Jane Whyatt, journalist

With her black leather jacket, chic haircut and cheeky smile Catherine Morin Desailly defies the stereotype of French Senators as learned elders who deliberate over affairs of state in the grandeur of... »

Spawning a Monster – Sharing Economy Disruption Examined »

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9 May 2014 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

In 1980 futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that consumers and producers would merge into prosumers. He might be proven right by the sharing economy. Start-ups are forming a peer-to-peer economy using... »

The Tyranny of Numbers »

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2 May 2014 | Per Strömbäck, editor Netopia

What gets measured gets done is a popular principle in business management, first articulated by Austrian-American author/management consultant Peter F. Drucker. In the era of big data, the idea is ap... »

What do US and Euro makers have in common? (Part 2) »

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25 April 2014 | Mathilde Berchon, 3D-printing expert

Culture influence as a two-way street The hacker scene in Europe and the United States share a common history. Hacker spaces – these spaces where people interested in technology meet to hack things... »

What do US and Euro makers have in common? (Part 1) »

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17 April 2014 | Mathilde Berchon, 3D-printing expert

I started MakingSociety in 2011 as an exploration notebook for showing my discoveries of the maker movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since then, I have been living between Paris and San Francisc... »

Facebook is rotting from the inside out »

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3 April 2014 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Put simply, there’s too much content on Facebook. Unmanageable content creation and very little quality control are perfect ingredients for spammers and Zombie Ad Networks. Until recently there wer... »