Given the premium placed on slender, lightweight mobile technology, the removal of speakers could free up space inside Google devices. No speakers necessary.
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Researchers say they’ll someday be able to recreate experiences, perceptions, and sensations with a device the size of a backpack.
Organizations at every level seek to have the best possible leadership within their ranks. They often are willing to spend extra time, money, and effort to train their employees. Having […]
Our best physical theories predict that a multiverse exists. But if we can’t test it, is it really scientific? The Universe is all there ever was, all there is, and […]
Each year, lightning kills 24,000 people around the world. These maps show which regions get hit more than others.
It took hundreds of thousands of years to make atoms for the first time. If things were just a little different, it could have taken an eternity. When it comes […]
The weather in most parts of Russia forces drivers to face harsh conditions — snow, mud, and poor visibility. It’s in this environment that Cognitive Technologies saw an opportunity.
If your BMI is higher than 30, you’re technically obese. These maps show how many people per European country (and U.S. state) suffer from that medical condition.
The hole in the ozone is shrinking, for sure, but to assess the whole layer, you need to look at the whole Earth. Throughout the history of life on Earth, there’s […]
Events, entertainment, and transportation are literally being transformed during this year’s Olympics.
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have all recently unveiled plans for a nationwide 5G network in the US.
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A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.
A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.
The fascinating HBO documentary ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ looks at Elvis’s practice of re-making black hits for his white audience. Was it cultural appropriation or just love of the material?
Experts caution about the dangers of the current technological revolution at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Just how equal in size are the populations of Europe and North America?
It’s one of the most common tropes in science fiction. But which movies actually get the science right? The way we travel through time, at a speed of one second per […]
The smartphone is set to become the hub of your life, online and off, until this replaces it.
One of the three basic circuit elements just got a lot smaller for the very first time, in what promises to be a trillion-dollar breakthrough. In the race for ever-improving […]
By 2020, Bitcoin mining will consume more energy than the world currently produces
Today’s children and youth are very tech savvy and easily use tablets, laptops, and smartphones to access the Internet, play games and consume media. AR can put that on fast-forward.
From La Rinconada in Peru to South Africa’s deepest mines: the quest for gold drives people to the greatest heights and depths on Earth.
Is it ever okay to believe in things we consider to be impossible or extremely improbable?
An anthropologist and a theologian walk into a room. The punchline is wise and wonderful.
“Our kids are ‘wired’ for control. Our role as adults is not to force them to follow the track we’ve laid out for them; it’s to help them develop the skills to find their own way…”
In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, leading to a revolution in astronomy. But for many purposes, Earth is still the best place to be. When you think about what’s […]
The social media company’s new policies only spotlight its arbitrary decision-making process.
Soon, the line that divides the living from the dead might not be so clear.
A phonetic map to help Warsaw Pact soldiers find their way around the Home Counties