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In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]

A new report from Bloomberg describes how Chinese subcontractors secretly inserted microchips into servers that wound up in data centers used by nearly 30 American companies.

Build up, tear down—new technology stirs up a cycle of progress and cynicism we’ve seen all throughout history.

Notes from the Fog author Ben Marcus on Elon Musk, the weird existential joys of the reality TV show Castaways, and whether we will eat in the future.

Research shows that employers are working to find more talent in the blockchain space, and they’re willing to pay higher rates for it.

 Key performance indicators, KPIs, are not new: It’s said that way back in the third century, China’s Wei dynasty began using them to rate the behavior of members of the […]

The legendary DARPA tests technology that lets soldiers control drones with their minds.

All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.

Some basic areas we could all use some improvement in.

Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.

Technology that enables telemedicine is set to change the medical field for patients, doctors, and investors.

“This is a great example of a forest restoration plan which is both good for the people and good for nature,” one researcher said.

The Seattle tech magnate died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Easter eggs have been hidden in video games since Atari’s Adventure; now Google search has hidden an entire adventure game.

How much does cognitive bias change people’s perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different.

We have to practice doing nothing more often.

Also, don’t offer screen-time as a reward for good behavior.

Scientists have identified a new shape called the scutoid, and it helps explain the how cells in the body arrange themselves in tightly packed three-dimensional structures to form tissues.

You get out what you put in, and we haven’t truly invested in space since Apollo ended. Humanity should be an interplanetary civilization by now. There is no scientific reason that […]

A team at MIT has discovered that human brains are capable of “seeing” ghost images hidden between groups of patterns captured by single-pixel cameras.

The $480 million contract could lead the company to make more than 100,000 augmented reality headsets for the military.

Most basic form of data, meet most basic form of matter.

The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.

A group affiliated with the Russian government has been found by Microsoft to have created at least six ‘spear phishing’ websites targeting U.S elections, and it’s certain there there will be more before November.

Success isn’t about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It’s about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.

China’s state-run news agency and the search engine company Sogou have developed an artificially intelligent news anchor that can read the news “tirelessly” 24 hours a day.

Researchers find an amazing amount of often-weird forms of life below the planet’s surface.

It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]

Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?

In Life After Google, George Gilder writes that we’re paying a heavy cost for “free.”