NPR Faces Off Against Automated Insights' WordSmith Program

"A company called Automated Insights created a program called WordSmith that generates simple news stories based on things like sporting events and financial news..How would NPR's best stack up against the machine? To answer our question, NPR White House correspondent and former business reporter Scott Horsley agreed to go head to head against WordSmith."

"An NPR Reporter Raced A Machine To Write A News Story. Who Won?" Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR Planet Money

CNET Profiles Durham's Tech Scene

"Adam Klein, chief strategist for American Underground, an incubator that has expanded from 35 startups to 150 in three locations in Durham and Raleigh in four years, rattled off a list of quality-of-life perks that have kept him in the area. "I can live downtown at half the cost. I cut my commute down to five minutes, and I'm still a direct flight to Boston, New York, or San Francisco. It's a progressive community, well educated, with lots of people from other countries," he said, also noting a burgeoning restaurant and craft beer scene. "And the weather doesn't hurt.""

— "Vexed in the city: San Francisco strife spurs tech defectors elsewhere," Ben Fox Rubin and Joan E. Solsman, CNET

Entrepreneur - Automated Insights

"Plenty of people will feel itchy at the thought (the editors at Entrepreneur among them), but there are machines out there that can write. Not just type or print, but actually turn bits of data into full sentences. Durham, N.C.'s Automated Insights has put its writing program to work to create more than 400 websites, 700 Twitter feeds and 400 mobile apps. The 13-person firm creates every single grammatically correct word of this network by machine, and founder and CEO Robbie Allen believes automated authoring has a home in almost any business."

- 10 Tech Trends Defining the Future of Small Business, Entrepreneur