by Michael Belfiore | Jan 30, 2024 | Blog
Technology always involves people. People build it. People use it. People are impacted by it. Few know that better than Joy Buolamwini, an African American, MIT-trained AI researcher who discovered that the face-tracking software she needed for a school project...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 12, 2021 | Blog
On the morning of October 4, 2004, in Mojave, California, I stood on the flight line of the Mojave Air and Spaceport with 27,000 other spectators looking up. Fifty thousand feet above, a little, three-seat space plane scratched the clear, blue sky, riding out of the...
by Michael Belfiore | Jul 5, 2021 | Blog
The Biden Administration is proposing a new federal agency modeled after DARPA — the Pentagon agency responsible for jumpstarting the internet, GPS, self-driving cars, and many other breakthroughs. From President Biden’s address to Congress in April: The National...
