Arianna Huffington has embarked on a new initiative aimed at reducing our dependence on technology.
Google’s new translation program may be top of the line but it still mixes up the Yiddish words for “brothel” and “dictionary.”
Eugene Goostman is happy to talk about his ‘Jewish identity.’ But you don’t want to know what the computer-generated entity has to say about his ‘little friend.’
Eugene Goostman is the first-ever computer generated entity to respond so well to questions that even experts would think he’s a real person. Guess what? He’s totally Jewish.
In 1984, a Super Bowl ad touted the MacIntosh computer — and changed the world. Thirty years later, Eric Schulmiller looks back at the Jewish role in the emergence of Apple.
The German police plans to up their game in the fight against neo-Nazism with a app that can identify “forbidden songs” beloved of Germany’s far-right.
With the help of new technology, three experts in ancient Hebrew have been able to discern a different reading of the passage from a fragment of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Friedberg Genizah Project will use a high performance computer network at Tel Aviv University to break the codes of the Cairo Genizah.
The security arm of the Jewish federations network is intensifying training to resist cyber attacks in the wake of a wave of such attacks on synagogue websites.
It looked as if today’s primaries to choose the candidate roster for Israel’s ruling Likud party was going to be delayed by Operation Pillar of Defense. But the party showed resilience and went to the polls as scheduled — only to have the process descend in to a shambles by problems with the snazzy computerized system on which members are meant to vote.