AI has not only beat chess, Go, and Jeopardy champions, but now it has defeated some of the world’s best poker players. And unlike chess or Go, playing poker involves unknown information like bluffing.
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His book warns us of the dangers of mass media, passivity, and how even an intelligent population can be driven to gladly choose dictatorship over freedom.
Exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity. A look at historically specific theories of exhaustion shows a tendency to look back nostalgically to a supposedly simpler time.
It seems intuitive that the best way to interpret how others are feeling would be to both see and hear how they’re behaving. However, a new study suggests that’s dead wrong.
New privacy tools and transparency are all part of continuing changes to the largest social network in the world.
The answer can give us an indication of where our universe is headed and how it might end.
Over the past week, former employees at Facebook and other companies have revealed how tens of millions of users’ data has been harvested and passed along to outside parties.
Emotional intelligence can have massive benefits for any organization, but why? How do we maximize our groups’ EQ?
What it would take to make a ‘mirror Universe’ a reality. The idea of parallel Universes has been around for over 60 years now, giving a theoretically physical existence to all […]
Do we really need to spend such a mind-bogglingly huge amount of money on surveilling the world (and the American taxpayers) to find a terrorist-needle in a global-haystack?
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Effective business communication is not just an advantage for businesses — it’s a necessity. According to Salesforce, 86% of 1,400 surveyed corporate execs, employees, and educators attribute workplace failures to […]
Nietzsche had some harsh things to say about the worldview of the masses, but what did he really think?
Though often used interchangeably, diversity and inclusion are two very different things. Most importantly, diversity without inclusion is mostly meaningless.
More and more companies are in the grip of a new phenomenon: “metric fixation.” Here’s what’s wrong with it.
Religious literacy can help us to ‘disagree better.’
Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But how, exactly, does it do that?
Comments. Kids love them, parents love them. But what were the best ones this week on our Facebook?
Documentary offers a surprisingly simple solution to improving medical care.
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How can we keep our brains in top form? Here are some powerful activities you can do immediately.
The origin of the word ‘respect’ comes from the Latin verb ‘respicere’, which means to take another look back at something or someone. Here’s how to restore respect after conflict.
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With the tegu’s successful occupation of Florida’s ecosystems, a new study predicts that this invasive species could potentially spread across the southern U.S. and into Mexico. But these voracious lizards are just another incident in our devastating history of invasive species.
A new article published in Mother Jones shows how Cambridge Analytica positioned itself to potential clients after the election of Donald Trump.
Almost half of the American workers don’t take all the vacation days they can, leading to increased health risks.
Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?
The FDA has approved the first pill with an embedded ingestible sensor that can track when, or if, a patient takes their medication.
This discovery may also help us develop novel drugs for Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and ADHD.
Specific self-driving car systems are now being developed for urban and rural settings.
A new survey reveals how satisfied employees of different tech companies are with their pay and whether they’d like to leave.
On April 25, leaders at businesses of all sizes will celebrate Administrative Professionals Day. The holiday honors the special individuals who work hard each day to make sure that offices […]
What do Finland, bacon, and basketball have in common? They’re all part of our new series, the Random Fact Roundup.