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Businesses looking to get people in the door may want to check out Pokémon Go. Seriously.
It’s a web, it’s a cloud – it’s under attack: how outages reveal the actual shape of the internet
When we asked Bill Nye the Science Guy if he thinks we are living in a computer-generated simulation, he turned to some basic scientific principles to justify his answer.
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You are already a cyborg! Here’s 10 ways you could merge even more with technology in the coming decade.
Innovation is all about people. And the world of innovation is a world in which humans define what is new and accepted and embraced.
Google’s DeepMind creates AI that blows away existing speech synthesizers.
The explosive success on Pokémon Go ushers in an age of augmented reality that will change us.
According to Pulitzer prize-nominated writer Nicholas Carr the internet is a utopia in which we never have to confront anything. When technology and humanity intersect, how does it affect our brains, our intellect, and our ability to explore?
Building encryption into everyday services is more than just good business.
And can we even agree on the definition of ‘nothingness’? “Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge […]
What would happen if gene editing fell into the wrong hands?
A noted economist and futurist Robin Hanson sees a civilization of brain simulations or “ems” rising within the next 100 years.
Samsung is moving virtual reality out of the developer market and into the hands of consumers.
There are strict scientific standards a new ‘claimed discovery’ needs to meet. Has cold fusion gotten there? “Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. …because the […]
From amputees to porn addicts, the art of touch is being explored and monetized by the growing haptics industry.
If we started all over again, could our Solar System’s second planet have been the inhabited one? “It was the Venus I had prayed to, it was my prayer, though […]
Germany and Japan have far fewer incidences of gun-related violence than the United States. What can we learn from how they regulate firearms to decrease the number of American tragedies?
A recent study finds that real-world stereotypes continue to exist in virtual worlds.
Many of us balk at the idea of biotech implants as an affront to privacy and good old-fashioned humanity – but what if it could restore your eyesight and prevent Alzheimer’s, what then?
Our collective story is what makes sense of what we perceive.
Prediction is reinventing industries and running the world. More and more, predictive analytics drives commerce, manufacturing, healthcare, government, and law enforcement.
Among many others, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary has managed to offend the previous, current and future presidents of the U.S.
What are the arguments in favor of comprehensive immigration restrictions, what relevant ethical claims are political discourses obscuring, and how has German hip-hop formed as a result?
The famous inventor Nikola Tesla shared his views on dieting and exercising that helped him think better and live longer.
Bringing a whole new meaning to phrase “couch surfing.”
An awful op-ed about how science is no different than other disciplines misses some fundamental facts. “Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.” […]
When Copernicus put the sun at the center of the solar system in 1543 instead of the Earth, it dealt a major blow to the self-esteem of people who needed to be at the center of it all.
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