Ok Google I have an addendum to your unofficial motto: “Don’t Be Evil…And Don’t Create Skynet”. The Silicon Valley giant has made its machine learning software available via ‘the Cloud‘ – that is, the Internet.

It’s not the first time bugs are being heroes. In 2005, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency supported scientists in using honeybees in bomb detecting devices.

Microsoft has long been sustained by the swarm of resellers and consultants that peddle its products to millions of clients in every domain, from small business to the public sector.

Imagine you're about to have to do something horrible or embarrasing, like say, admitting that you read Neuroskeptic. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to switch off your memory for a while, so you at least didn't have to remember it?