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Researchers were shocked at how accurate it was and that no one had noticed it before.

Women who receive harassment online are often told to simply ignore it, and reminded that anyone can experience harassment on online. But feminist women seem to be particularly targeted.

As a teenager, Derek Black was the webmaster for Stormfront, the Internet’s most prominent message board for white nationalists. But Black escaped that world thanks to an unlikely ally.

The Internet is all shadows and mirrors—but what if it were the central source of truth? Thanks to Blockchain technology, it’s a future that’s possible.

Bernardo Kastrup proposes a new ontology he calls “idealism” built on panpsychism, the idea that everything in the universe contains consciousness. He solves problems with this philosophy by adding a new suggestion: The universal mind has dissociative identity disorder.

Instead of beating adversaries in games, we might learn more about intelligence if we tried to teach artificial agents to play together as we do: as paladins and elf rangers.

Everyone thinks they know how to make their brain more creative and have better ideas.

In his first media appearances since the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Mark Zuckerberg spoke to several publications about how Facebook plans to protect user data going forward.

Amongst other reasons, because they don’t mind planes.

Musk is about more than Teslas and rockets. 

The term “hodl” originated in a drunken post about Bitcoin from 2013, but it’s evolved into a movement in the cryptocurrency community.

From the history of LSD to the origins of hip-hop, these 10 documentaries will educate and inspire.

Cybersecurity costs billions of dollars each year. Building on a blockchain could solve many of our security problems.

There’s a lot of confusion as to what AI, machine learning, and robotics do. Sometimes, they can all be used together.

A certain kind of conspiracy theory keeps popping up after every recent mass shooting, and social media is making it easier to spread than ever before.

Optical computers would be extremely fast, more energy efficient, and could store far more information than electronic ones.

Millennials are an integral (and growing) part of today’s workforce, now comprising the largest share of the U.S. workforce. As more tech-savvy Millennials join your organization, it becomes increasingly important […]

Without sounding like internet hyperbole, this super-simple listening trick can help you better understand people’s intentions. And provide a fascinating insight into the minds of others.

The masterminds behind Silicon Valley were doing more than coding.

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A.I. churches are springing up, even if just online, yet they’re speaking a very old language.

One of the makers of the iPhone is calling on Apple to study the smartphone’s addictive nature. Will they listen? Will we?

Technology has grown by leaps and bounds over the last few generations. In the early 1960s, computer mainframes the size of semi-truck trailers that used transistors were considered cutting-edge because […]

After Beyoncé’s landmark Coachella performance, a look back at the biggest musical stars ever. It’s impossible to pick just one as the biggest, but fun to try.

Poachers trade on a black market estimated to total $40 billion. It’s impossible to stop every poacher, but new technology could bolster the efforts of conservationists by putting a set of eyes in the sky.  

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?

Onboard Elon Musks’s Tesla Roadster were hidden the first books of of a library in space.

In an age of bountiful data, there’s dark potential for how corporations and judicial systems could use private details to discriminate against innocent people.

Flame-bearing birds streak out of mythology and straight into science.

For the first time in Facebook’s history, the number of daily active users in the U.S. dropped—by about 700,000.