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Our technologies possess intention, delicately guiding and influencing our most human behaviors in ways we haven’t considered.

Don’t know Ellsworth Kelly or his art? Now’s your chance — he’s dead.

Do you have what it takes?

By examining our minds at a quantum level, we change them, and by changing them, we change the reality that shapes them.

Why does much of the world stubbornly resist data and email encryption? Why don’t we enable it on all our devices all the time?

Hayek viewed markets as distributed-intelligence systems that evolved to compute resource allocations. We can now update that view with ideas from computer science, biological signalling, and evolution.

The supply chain for recycling paper burns more fossil fuel than it needs to. Epson has come up with a solution.

Researchers hope training machines to the test will allow for advances in imbuing software with basic common sense.

Most of you know that we run a Patreon campaign for Starts With A Bang, enabling us to bring you the best content in the Universe, ad-free, here on Medium. […]

Culturally and economically, modern Turkey is at a dangerous crossroads.

It starts with how we approach education.

New findings out of Duke University will allow medical researchers to act like computer programmers except with genetic code rather than digital.

The science behind selfish behavior has been revealed, and it’s pretty disturbing.

Technomorphic ideas can alter the rules of our thinking about our thinking — and also show that simple rules can escape physics-like predictability. 

Turn on, tune in, drop out, but read on about how Hippies and Hippie Modernism might rise again.

Away from the dinner table.

Robotic cars are coming. The IT and automobile industries have the throttle wide open to be the first to get the human out of the loop. The “Google Car” is […]

Author and entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan offers an interesting crash course on computational ethics, the idea that robots and machines will require programming to make them cognizant of morals, decorum, manners, and various other social nuances.

Lego and New York. They were made for each other.

No. Not even if you violate the laws of physics in two fundamental ways. John Oliver: So, roughly speaking, what are the chances that the world is going to be […]

The ethics and realities of autonomous cars.

Researchers have developed computer software that can diagnose clinical depression by noticing how people behave during psychiatric interviews.

It’s not that Astronomy has a “problem” that’s unique; it’s that they’re actually doing something about it. “Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding […]

It’s a brave new world.

Meet the mischievous computer whizzes who started it all.

If there is a quantum theory of gravity, is String Theory the only game in town? “I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to […]

Do you want the government knowing how often you watch porn?

Companies like Amazon take advantage of the fact that they know a whole lot more about buying patterns than you do. As author and entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan explains, this sort of information asymmetry is the real crux of their business plan.

Researchers transfer quantum data over 100 km of optical fiber.

Samsung is moving virtual reality out of the developer market and into the hands of consumers.