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You need to maintain a network that’s not only deep but also broad. 

By combining an optical fiber screen with a projector and an infrared camera, a team of researchers created a display that could be used for secure e-document handling, among other tasks.

For six years, Nicholas Merrill wasn’t allowed to say who he was.

For Leon Wieseltier, the corrosive effects of modern technology spell the demise of humanity as we know it. I’m not so sure.

When the citadels of knowledge for knowledge’s sake collapse, the marketers rush in to fill the void. We’re in greater need now  than ever of epistemology – a careful, systematic examination of what we know and how we know it.

The more complex challenge you have, the more relationship matters, the depth of the relationship between the teachers and student. 

What’s the best way to hold people accountable for their actions on the job? Measure the results (though that might encourage them to break a few rules, or even a […]

We live in one unified world.

Maybe digital technology is a neutral medium, conveying all our thoughts and feelings equally well. Or maybe, as tech hype tells us, our apps and gadgets skew positive, liberating us […]

If you’re losing your sense of humor, if you’re not able to laugh at things, then what are you doing? It’s an indicator that maybe information that you’re consuming has […]

The current research that is most exciting is aimed toward understanding how the brain looks now at the connectivity between specific areas. 

A small village in Spain reports that incidences of uncollected dog waste have dropped by 70 percent ever since offenders began receiving deliveries of their dogs’ leftovers.

Pondering the worrisome prospect that all your quantified self data might not be private. 

National governments are increasingly less likely to collect personal data on identification cards because they will soon simply purchase your personal information from companies.

Harnessing relativity, technology can even give us the time to live.

Former CIA data operative Edward Snowden has claimed responsibility for leaking the NSA’s massive phone and Internet surveillance program to American journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Ideas spread around not just through human word-of-mouth. 

Siri’s underlying technology is designed “to solve a different, simpler variant of the human language problem” than Watson. 

The extraordinary amounts of information available on individuals has led to a new discipline that one expert says represents the future of human resources management.

Yuval Levin, in his neglected classic Imagining the Future, claims that there are two characteristic ways of viewing our technological and biotechnological future.  One is in terms of innovations, the […]

Data is an abstraction of real life, and real life can be complicated, but if you gather enough context, you can at least put forth a solid effort to make sense of it.

George is one of these people who is constantly giving away jokes, sharing ideas, letting other people take credit for the work that was done collectively.

Memes are biological entities that perpetuate themselves through history by replicating and by competing in a Darwinian fashion.

Scientists say their new storage method — which consists of encoding data on self-assembled nanostructures in fused quartz using a very fast laser — could preserve immense amounts of data long after human civilization has ended.

A new study of 20 health-related sites demonstrated that many contain tracking elements and/or leak search terms to third-party companies, providing data that “could [help] build up a very powerful document with all of your medical conditions.”

I think that we’re just at the very, very beginning of watching the implications of being ubiquitously connected to everybody on the planet and what you can do with that.  

This South African case raises many questions. An HIV-positive Aids counsellor, who was convicted of attempted murder for having unprotected sex with his unsuspecting girlfriend, has lost his appeal... (SAPA) […]

The Internet Pioneer generation loves advertising. They want advertising to be content. 

Do we all want to be villains?

As people in different countries are able to tell their own stories they are responding to the idea of Africa as a place of permanent suffering.