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Players are starting to drop out of eSports — complaining of crippling injuries that have halted their careers, which begs the question if eSports needs to reform to support these veterans.
Forums and their members get a bad rap. It isn’t the outdated, troll-happy online cesspool you think it is. It’s a place to find community and support. You may even walk away feeling like a more productive member of society.
There is no direct evidence about what proceeds human consciousness, but there are stories from people who have been pronounced clinically dead.
By analyzing the books, films, and organizations you’ve Liked on Facebook, computers can create a more accurate picture of your identity than your friends, family, or even your spouse can.
Silicon Valley should be alarmed by a new report on the NSA’s international spying programs, says The Week’s Ryan Cooper. He calls the NSA “the kind of parasite that eventually kills its host.”
In 2012, a “leap second” crashed sites such as Reddit and Yelp. Linux creator Linus Torvalds tells WIRED that we shouldn’t expect that to happen again this June.
Where previous iterations of wearable technology have relied on gaudiness, Google’s new smart fabric comes with an understanding that innovation doesn’t always need to be flashy.
Meet the man who’s offering the gateway drug to get everyone on board with Elon Musk’s solar-fueled future.
We could lose the ability to interpret digital data as software progresses and leaves old ways of coding data behind.
Food-journaling apps are a great way to log your eating habits, but so many people stop using them in the first week. Why? Divided social support and calorie counters that favor fast food over a home-cooked meal.
Why do we prefer Mr. or Ms. Okay over Mr. or Ms. Perfect? A deeply rooted evolutionary bias propels us to take the surest route to passing on our genes.
The second most-watched TED Talk of all time has been debunked.
Various computer science and theology experts have sounded off on how religion will impact (or be impacted by) the rise of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence.
The ability to send an emotion — a feeling — to someone a world away may not be a thing of the future anymore. Researchers have found they can stimulate different emotions by blowing air onto certain parts of your hand.
Automation is on the rise in areas previously regarded as beyond the reach of machines.
Can the world’s most fantastic and speculative “theory of everything” candidate shed light on the Universe’s most invisible objects? “I just think too many nice things have happened in string […]
Online learning has set the stage for the start of democratized education, but some argue that total equality is still a long way off.
“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”
As NASA researchers strive to create training programs for future Mars missions, the lessons they learn have implications for other forms of training here on Earth.
Nature’s games aren’t all “red in tooth and claw” competitions. Evolution also contains cooperation. And Game Theory provides the tools (“behavioral telescopes”) to show how cooperation can improve evolutionary fitness.
Massive data centers in the world require massive amounts of energy, not just for processing power, but also for cooling. While big companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are looking into a variety of ways to make the cooling process greener, one particularly clever solution is coming from a Dutch startup called Nerdalize.
A brain-training program developed for children diagnosed with ADHD has shown promise in its ability to reduce inattention and help children concentrate more effectively over the long term.
A psychiatrist has made headlines claiming smartphones are making children “borderline” autistic. Here’s why that’s rubbish:
Concerned that extreme advances in artificial intelligence could endanger humanity, Elon Musk has donated ten million dollars this week to safeguard humans from an “intelligence explosion.”
Searching the internet gives people an inflated sense of knowledge, according to a recent study.
Best mash-up ever: Pac-Man invades Google Maps.
Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management discusses the concept of creative destruction, which explains the phenomenon of automation simultaneously wiping out existing industries while creating new ones in their place.
The technology draws on the concepts established by theatre companies like Punchdrunk that create an immersive world for an audience to explore while the narrative unfolds around them.
The future of creativity may depend on younger generations being taught computer coding skills just as they are taught foreign languages, mathematics, and science.