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As teachers begin using new and questionable methods, will students suffer and get left behind? “Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”–Dan Quayle As the first full […]

I would argue that probably there are more people like me who learn through interest-driven learning or through building things than young people who can kind of plan their future and execute against it. 

The world has a lot of is deep areas of expertise; what the world lacks today is agility and context. 

It’s obvious to anybody that the mind does much more than solve problems.

Have we already reached peak car? This is the term that urban planners are using to describe the decline in vehicle miles traveled per person. 

I’m not actually predicting that until 2029 that we will match human intelligence, but computers will nonetheless do things that humans can’t do.

Having worked in fitness clubs for over a decade (and having worked out in them for two), I know this cycle well: the gym will be packed until mid-February. Attendance […]

Harvard scientists sandwiched a layer of transparent rubber between two layers of a specially-made hydrogel. Electrical audio signals sent to the gel layers caused the rubber to vibrate and make sound.

Nissan’s Nismo smartwatch gives new meaning to the car/driver relationship: It connects to the car’s computer system so that its wearer can receive performance data and other information.

Two Newcastle University researchers have developed a canine version of a device that tracks its wearer’s behaviors. They theorize that changes in those behaviors could indicate a problem at home with the dog’s owner.

An Oxford University study looked at how susceptible jobs are to computerization, and found that “about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk.”

Among other claims, a new paper in ACS Nano says that the carbon-based material has twice the tensile strength of graphene. It could be used in many different applications…once someone figures out how to create it in bulk.

Tech research firm Gartner has coined the phrase “citizen developer” to describe the growing number of programmers whose skills came from outside the university environment.

The future of humanity depends on it. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach […]

The negative con­sequences of conducting relationships at arm’s length, round­-the-clock, and simultaneously, and only with those who reinforce one’s worldview. 

By entering a Twitter or Instagram handle, Ready or Not displays data showing where its user has been and what information they sent out. It was built as part of a project titled “Teaching Privacy” that targets high schoolers.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals a rocket design by using an interactive ‘Iron Man’-like computer interface that responds to his gestures.

Within the field of artificial intelligence, a new Japanese initiative promises to further blur the line between human and machine. A group of AI researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics just […]

Researchers have come up with a printing process involving a special silver-based conductive ink that can deposit itself to paper. For home hobbyists, it could bridge the gap between a plastic casing and a working electronic device.

An MIT scientist has succeeded in creating mini-cubes that have no external parts yet are able to move and assemble themselves into larger shapes. Possible applications include repairing damaged buildings and exploring dangerous terrain.

Neuroscientists have taught a computer program how pixels from brain scans correspond to individual pixels in letters of the alphabet. 

Here is what would make a quantum computer so powerful.

Released today (Sept. 27) after an all-night session, the summary document of the UN panel’s forthcoming report declares that the proof of climate change is “unequivocal” and that human activity is “extremely likely” to be at fault.

While the raw computational power of the brain declines with age, new studies have found that intelligence increases with maturity.

Eric Siegel on IBM’s Watson: This is the first time I’ve ever had the feeling and the impulse to say, “You know what?  That’s intelligent.”

We are gaining the capability to create products that mimic how a brain works.

My prediction is, in a few decades, we will come to accept entities that are not biological as conscious. 

100 years ago, we thought the Milky Way was the full extent of the Universe, containing everything. Now, we know we’re just one of many. But how many? “The human mind […]

A new image editing method will have graphic designers cheering and weeping in equal measure. The new technique lets you take a two-dimensional image, and with as little as three […]

Scientists have succeeded in creating conditions that cause photons, which don’t have mass, to behave like molecules, which do. The interactions between them resemble those that might happen with two lightsabers, and could help advance quantum computing.