When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: "STALL STALL STALL." His junior co-pilots were at the controls. In a calm tone, Captain Dubois asked: "What's happening?" Co-pilot David Robert's answer was less calm. "We completely lost control of the aeroplane, and we don't understand anything! The crew were, in fact, in control of the aeroplane. One simple course of action could have ended the crisis they were facing, and they had not tried it. But David Robert was right on one count: he didn't understand what was happening. As William Langewiesche, a writer and professional pilot, described in an article for Vanity Fair in October 2014, Air France Flight 447 had begun straightforwardly enough – an on-time take-off from Rio de Janeiro at 7.29pm on 31 May 2009, bound ...

When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: "STALL STALL STALL." His junior co-pilots were at the controls. In a calm tone, Captain Dubois asked: "What's happening?" Co-pilot David Robert's answer was less calm. "We completely lost control of the aeroplane, and we don't understand anything! The crew were, in fact, in control of the aeroplane. One simple course of action could have ended the crisis they were facing, and they had not tried it. But David Robert was right on one count: he didn't understand what was happening. As William Langewiesche, a writer and professional pilot, described in an article for Vanity Fair in October 2014, Air France Flight 447 had begun straightforwardly enough – an on-time take-off from Rio de Janeiro at 7.29pm on 31 May 2009, bound ...

In a subsequent conversation with Santiago, Dom acknowledges that Darlene is winning the interrogation--her armor is impenetrable enough to keep any confession, no matter how mild, from coming through. But in a fascinating revelation with major implications for the future of the entire series, it turns out that the FBI's game has been rigged all along. Dom takes Darlene into a conference room covered with whiteboards that reveal all the information they've collected in their investigation: The real names, hacker handles, and connections between pretty much every single member of fsociety. The FBI has been playing a long con, letting their suspects operate in the real world while they build a case and wait for them to slip up. The FBI has it all--with one key mistake: They assume Tyrell, not Elliot, is the ultimate mastermind of the 5/9 hack, with Elliot standing as a kind of second-in-command.

Google wants to change how it relates to enterprise customers, and it's going to use Google Cloud to do so. Today at an event in San Francisco, it made announcements about machine learning, Kubernetes, and expansion of its Google Cloud Platform presence. But the bigger-picture news is that cloud will be taking a leading role at the company. Google is bringing together its massive Google Cloud Platform (GCP), along with a new application platform called G Suite (formerly Google Apps). And it's hiring 1,000 people to boost its cloud business. This is all under one big umbrella called Google Cloud.

"There is more talent in Mexico than in Silicon Valley". This is the forceful argument of Andrés Rodríguez, founder of BlueMessaging, a Big Data platform that incorporates artificial intelligence. Rodríguez insists that there is "much innovative talent" in this country and points out that he has worked in Silicon Valley and in Mexico to be able to compare them. According to its management, Bluemessaging is a startup capable of processing millions of requests at the same time and generating savings of up to 50% compared with other platforms or service centers. This startup has been assisted by the Program to Stimulate Innovation (PEI) and the Technological Innovation Fund (FIT), both run by the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt), the latter in partnership with the Secretariat of Economy (SE).

I have always been an optimist, almost to a fault. Being this optimistic in the dating world can put you in some regretful situations. You think, "How much worse could this possibly get?" This is a story of a young lady (me) getting an answer to that question. We met on Tinder, talked for a day or two, and then we went out on a Sunday night.

This global network of digital humanitarians used Silk to document who responded to the Ecuador Earthquake emergency. Google has to report all accidents with its self-driving cars. This Silk takes a good look at this data. More data on the world's richest 2000 individuals than ever before: we looked at the data collected by PIIE to answer questions like: Who are we talking about and how much money exactly do the superrich have? What are the sources of all that wealth and how was it accrued?

Daniel Lélis Baggio started his work in computer vision through medical image processing at InCor (Instituto do Coração Heart Institute) in São Paulo, where he worked with intra-vascular ultrasound image segmentation. Since then, he has focused on GPGPU and ported the segmentation algorithm to work with NVIDIA's CUDA. He has also dived into six degrees of freedom head tracking with a natural user interface group through a project called ehci (http://code.google.com/p/ehci/). He now works for the Brazilian Air Force. Shervin Emami (born in Iran) taught himself electronics and hobby robotics during his early teens in Australia.

Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or tables, and the simpler the story, the better. The story that has ruled our world in the past few decades is what we might call the Liberal Story. It was a simple and attractive tale, but it is now collapsing, and so far no new story has emerged to fill the vacuum. Instead, we get Donald Trump. The Liberal Story says that if we only liberalize and globalize our political and economic systems, we will produce paradise on earth, or at least peace and prosperity for all.

Memorably spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, these were the first words ever heard through a telephone. Since then, speech has become the natural format for long-distance communication across the globe. The impact of voice-to-voice communication has meant that even written messages, sent via email and social media, have become increasingly conversational in tone. That Watson was not IBM Watson, of course, or Watson's namesake Thomas J Watson. But IBM Watson, by bringing a cognitive, learning approach to the absorption of data, has made it possible for computer systems to understand spoken language, and the more natural, colloquial way we now express ourselves in text.