The ping of an email notification sounds and we jump to read it, dropping what we’re doing–disrupting our workflow. It’s stressing us out, according to a recent study.
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We have developed a world economy that is increasingly dependent on our information and communication technologies, says former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen. That’s why the crux of our future welfare depends on the development of advanced cybersecurity.
Technology and the law have a bit of catching up to do. As fitness wearables begin being integrated into medical offices, more Americans and consumer advocates are becoming concerned over the privacy of their information.
Theorems are gold in math. But in physics? The Universe will surprise you. “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”–Theodore Roethke Physics is one of the […]
Two individuals separated by 5,000 miles have successfully communicated without typing or saying a word to each other. Rather it was their brains that did the talking.
Leila Janah, founder and CEO of the non-profit business Samasource, describes the organization’s core concept as a way for technology “to unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside.” Sometimes […]
Boarding an airplane is painfully slow, and while the back-to-front method used by most airlines is an intuitively good way to get people into their seats quickly, the results are mostly disastrous.
The reason why isn’t important. If you want to keep your job search a secret, the key is erasing potential clues while maintaining a strong office poker face.
Be honest. Nobody’s listening. How happy are you?
If our present scientific achievements pale in comparison to the grand gestures of putting a man on the moon and building nuclear weapons, it may be that our capacity to tell imaginative narratives is suffering.
Serial tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has established a $100,000,000 fund to support start-ups that seek to bring about a sci-fi future in the present.
Today’s children are spending an average of seven hours a day on entertainment media, including televisions, computers, phones and other electronic devices. Studies have shown that excessive media use can […]
For more than six years, Clara Boj and Diego Diaz have been developing a solution that enables kids to simultaneously enjoy the physical and virtual worlds of play. Their invention, HYBRIDPLAY, turns playground objects into game controllers and teaches kids how to work collaboratively.
Maintaining both a personal and professional presence online requires both a delicate touch and an understanding that lines are inevitably going to become blurred.
Ever since the arrival of agriculture, and more recently, cubicles, modern society has begun selecting for those who can interest themselves in the repetitive, or least force themselves to tolerate it.
Spoiler: NO, not a chance. Now find out why. “There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best […]
Facebook is addicting — this idea is nothing new. But take away the numbers and suddenly the site becomes much less appealing.
Elon Musk, purveyor of electric cars and rocket ships, is a much more wary of artificial intelligence. “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” said the SpaceX CEO this week.
Whatever your native language, you’ve probably noticed that city people speak it differently than do country folk. But so what? It’s also true that Chicagoans speak a bit differently than […]
The rise of deep learning will revolutionize how companies are managed, argues the Economist, replacing many of the tasks currently done by humans–especially management consultants–with computer programs.
Dear Boston Logan TSA, It was airport drudgery like any other day: carryon luggage stuffed with a week’s worth of clothing, a backpack brimming with notebooks and magazines, an overpriced […]
Isn’t the internet great? It’s this remarkable and multifaceted one-stop shop for socializing, romance, commerce, and cat videos. But thanks to the revelations of Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers, we’ve […]
When I first heard of Yossarian Lives, a website that bills itself as the metaphorical search engine, I thought “no way!” Good metaphors are inherently artistic and depend on a […]
The singularity is near! Our smart phones and laptops will one day seem like the gadget equivalent of the horse-and-buggy compared to the machines we will rely on in the […]
Data produced by DeskTime, an app that tracks habits of employees on work computers, suggests the most productive employees put in 52 minutes of work for every 17 minutes of break.
There are undeniable advantages to carrying a whole library on your Kindle or tablet computer but retaining the information you read doesn’t seem to be one of them.
IBM has created a computer chip that mimics the functioning of the human brain, opening wider the possibility for a vast Internet of Things.
Want a career shift? Learning to code could be your ticket to a better life. With computer programming booming in popularity, you’ve got a bevy of educational choices to choose from.
Soon after 2020, IBM expects to release commercial computer transistors made from carbon nanotubes, replacing silicon chips as the standard for personal computing devices.
Two tech security researchers will present findings later this week indicating how and why USB as a technology is dangerously susceptible to malware and other breaches.