I carry a lot of animosity towards everyday tech. iPhones distract my loved ones from our quality time, smart assistants insist I need a butler who spies on me, and my various inboxes and text messages enable me to be "always on." Then there’s that whole degradation of democracy thing. I’m not alone in harboring these less-than-sunny sentiments: According to the Pew Research Center, Americans are concerned about how tech is affecting their privacy and many have considered cutting back on social media.

The cloud runs the world. Given that it’s such a huge source of profit and the fundamental infrastructure of the future, you might assume that Amazon, Google, IBM, and all the cloud companies raking in billions intimately know every piece of hardware, software, and code in their data centers. You’d be wrong.

TResearchers have shrunk state-of-the-art computer vision models to run on low-power devices. Growing pains: Visual recognition is deep learning’s strongest skill. Computer vision algorithms are analyzing medical images, enabling self-driving cars, and powering face recognition. But training models to recognize actions in videos has grown increasingly expensive. This has fueled concerns about the technology’s carbon footprint and its increasing inaccessibility in low-resource environments..