DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense military research agency, whose work has resulted in staples of modern life such as the Internet and GPS systems, is now working with a […]
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It isn’t just the morality that’s dubious in the newest iteration of Star Trek. “If I die trying but I’m inadequate to the task to make a course change in the […]
KGB-era “active measures” are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.
“Shut up and take my money” isn’t just a meme anymore, it’s the way people are increasingly choosing to access art, news, and culture.
Silicon Valley insiders are voicing concerns about programmers’ deliberate attempts to turn users into addicts.
There is censorship in science, admits Bill Nye – but not nearly as much as there should be.
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Clashes between “antifa” on the far left and the alt-right have intensified.
Researchers plan on making human cells resistant to infection, radiation, and even cancer.
So far, 549 separate paraphilias have been officially identified.
The program picked up association biases nearly identical to those seen in human subjects.
Kellyanne Conway’s recent appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, where she used the dystopian-sounding phrase “alternative facts,” sounded eerily similar to George Orwell’s 1984 concept of newspeak and doublethink.
Amazon introduces a monthly STEM toy subscription box aimed at kids – because we’re all born curious.
The thoughts on ruthless leadership by Italian politician and writer Niccolò Machiavelli resonate today.
The pair of papers suggest that sleep is crucial in order to wipe out memories. Yep – it turns out that, sometimes, it’s smart to forget.
A new partnership is leveraging the power of AI to hunt down online sex traffickers.
A minister misspeaks – and accidentally creates an entire Latin American country
America’s most popular conspiracy theories and the science behind them.
Glacier McGlacierface? Not likely. NASA has set some classy themes that will guide the naming of geographical features of Pluto and its moons.
A recent conference on the future of artificial intelligence features visionary debate between Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Nick Bostrom, David Chalmers, Jaan Tallinn and others.
Did they perform their analysis sub-optimally? Maybe. But gravitational waves were seen no matter what. “We hope that interested people will repeat our calculations and will make up their own minds […]
A solution to the problem of internet trolls may evolve that will protect us from them, but also from the free exchange of ideas.
The average person checks their phone 200 times a day. It borders on addiction for some, but according to cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken there are easy ways to unlearn this compulsion.
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The just-passed federal Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act makes it illegal for ticket scalpers to acquire tickets using software bots.
The smartphone is set to become the hub of your life, online and off, until this replaces it.
Scientists are conflicted about what causes car sickness, which may make a workaround difficult.
Married Americans are now having sex 11 fewer times per year than in 2002, according to a new study published in the Archives for Sexual Behavior. What is causing this dramatic change?
If Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child, it would be GlobalXplorer, a “space archaeology” software by TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak.
It may be the only way to save the USA — and the world — from alternative facts. “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” –Ernest Rutherford There […]
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Artist David Salle on how even to begin figuring out what “works” in art.
Mathematics is the academic class that is most socially acceptable to regard as your weak point. This is a shame.