Cade Metz
The New York Times
San Francisco, CA, United States
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What Riding in a Self-Driving Tesla Tells Us About the Future of Autonomy
We took a ride with Tesla’s experimental self-driving system. It was by turns intriguing, impressive and scary. → Read More
Can Tesla Data Help Us Understand Car Crashes?
Data and video recorded by Tesla and other automakers to hone driver-assistance systems can also be an investigative tool for regulators and lawyers. → Read More
Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, U.S. Data Shows
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving systems like Tesla’s Autopilot. A handful of accidents turned deadly. → Read More
Intel Will Take Mobileye Public in 2022
The chip maker’s Israeli subsidiary builds driver-assistance technology for major automakers and is now testing self-driving cars. → Read More
Jay Last, One of the Rebels Who Founded Silicon Valley, Dies at 92
He and seven others left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to create their own silicon company, Fairchild Semiconductor, which is now seen as ground zero for the West Coast tech industry. → Read More
Chuck Geschke, Father of Desktop Publishing, Dies at 81
If you sent a PDF on your computer today, thank him. In 1980, he and a colleague created a way of sending digital documents to a printer, starting a company, Adobe. → Read More
Microsoft to Buy Nuance for $16 Billion to Focus on Health Care Tech
By acquiring a provider of artificial-intelligence software, the tech giant is hoping to bolster its offerings for the fast-growing field of medical computing. → Read More
Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks
Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software. → Read More
Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist?
When Google forced out two well-known artificial intelligence experts, a long-simmering research controversy burst into the open. → Read More
Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, had voiced exasperation over the company’s response to efforts to increase minority hiring. → Read More
London A.I. Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery
Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years. → Read More
My Name Is GPT-3 and I Approved This Article
The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs. → Read More
When A.I. Falls in Love
The Times asked GPT-3 to tell us a little about itself and its romantic life. → Read More
Study Considers a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors
New research indicates that pollsters may not have captured the Trump support swirling around the online conspiracy theory. → Read More
Palantir Shares Go Up in Wall Street Debut
The Silicon Valley company leads a wave of tech outfits hoping to test the public markets in the busiest season for I.P.O.s in two decades. → Read More
Ex-Georgia Tech Researcher Can Proceed With Lawsuit Against University Officials
Ten years after state agents raided his home, an engineer fights to prove he was wrongfully attacked over a computer chip start-up. → Read More
Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88
One of the few women in the computer industry in its early days, she paved the way for the efficient, lightning-fast apps of today. → Read More
Pilgrim’s Pride Chief Executive Is Accused of Price Fixing
The charges are the first in a Justice Department investigation involving several other major chicken producers. → Read More
This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult. → Read More
‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive
The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex. → Read More