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Computer science curriculum must be adopted by K-12 schools in order to increase diversity in the tech sector.

The next wave of retirees will be more tech-savvy than ever.

AI will throw a wrench into many of our theological foundations. How will we adapt? 

The tonal qualities of a dog’s bark can reveal age, gender, breed, and more.    

NASA just posted all 8,400 photos from all 12 Apollo missions to Flickr. Here are the best in full, original resolution. “Suddenly, from behind the rim of the Moon, in […]

Researchers say it’s the night — not the darkness — that we fear.

Nature invented software billions of years before we did. “The origin of life is really the origin of software,” says Gregory Chaitin (inventor of mathematical metabiology). Life requires what software does. It is fundamentally algorithmic. And its complexity needs better thinking tools.

Robots have already bested humans in chess and Jeopardy; now, developers are trying to create the next poker master.

Why is the word such a wet blanket? Scientists investigate.

American stuff is the stuff of American history, as recorded in still life painting.

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New robot seeks to bring convenience to your life, and can master new tasks on the fly.

How many cumulative hours have you wasted waiting for your chat partner to respond to you? A new program created by an MIT Ph.D. student offers an opportunity to make your instant message intermissions as productive as possible.

The author of a now 30-year-old article thought he was writing the obituary of the laptop computer. Such wrongness makes you wonder what current underrated technology could be compared to the once-maligned laptop.

The once-revolutionary technology is headed for the landfill, but it offers advantages that modern video formats can’t match.

NASA’s New Horizons probe is on a road trip to Pluto and sending back some illuminating imagery on the way.

Trolling isn’t just the actions of ornery black sheep on the web. Jonathan Zittrain explains that it’s a set of behaviors due to be studied more intently in the coming years.

Writing is a recent innovation in the history of human evolution. So, how then is it that our brains organize this skill?

An autonomous 18-wheeler has been given a license to drive the long stretches of open road that crisscross Nevada.

Researchers have studied how towns, less influenced by tech, sleep. They’ve found these people’s wake/sleep cycles mimic the sun’s. So, what can be done to save the tech-addicted cities?

Singularity University’s Peter Diamandis discusses one way in which virtual reality — a burgeoning exponential technology — will disrupt unexpected sectors of culture and society.

Dance classes are low in physical activity, study says, but there’s more to the story.

A 29-year-old tutor faces felony charges after allegedly hacking into a California high school’s network to change students’ grades. The maximum sentence is 16 years in prison. 

A recent study finds that real-world stereotypes continue to exist in virtual worlds.

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“Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. Such power has evident value — even though the power may be negated by what one does with it.”

There’s no such thing as absolute time, but after 13.8 billion years, is anything relatively different? “The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since […]

Information Theory explicitly ignores meaning. Its focus on messages makes it uninformative about their effects. And limits the usefulness of its way of quantifying information. 

What happens when you let a computer determine each child’s personalized curriculum? Math teachers in several schools across America are seeing results through a growing brand of “blended learning.”

Our reliance on technology is hurting our memories — we load names, dates, and numbers into our smartphones that we cannot recall on our own. However, this offloading of information allows us to free up cognitive space to learn more.