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The federal government and private insurers greatly increased Americans’ telehealth access during the pandemic. Will these changes be permanent?

Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.

Businesses have learned how to mend the weak spots in free trial marketing.

A Stanford study explores the effect of multitasking on memory in young adults.

WhiteSmoke Grammar Checker keeps your spelling and grammar issues at bay while also working as a translator.

It may be old tech, but it’s super-reliable.

Was the hamburger menu always so ubiquitous?

Intrapreneurs tap into the spirit of entrepreneurialism to innovate and find personal meaning at work, but organizations need to celebrate their efforts more.

A strange object found in the desert has prompted worldwide speculation.

Everyone has pondered what they would do with an extra hour a day. Would they get more sleep or spend more time with family? Spend time on a side project […]

MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.

After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?

Opportunistic agility is running rampant among hackers and scammers.

From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.

Can playing video games really curb the risk of depression? Experts weigh in.

Misinformation is rampant—but it is the Internet.

It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

Protect yourself and your personal information at all times on the internet.

Educators and administrators must build new supports for faculty and student success in a world where the classroom might become virtual in the blink of an eye.

Fear that new technologies are addictive isn’t a modern phenomenon.

New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.

Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.

Google is probably wrong about your health condition.

Even a year like 2020 couldn’t prepare Americans for the first few weeks of 2021. The year’s opening act was a siege on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of […]

Your health and the health of the planet are not indistinguishable.

These people had no access to magazines and, generally, no access to the internet.

The world is changing, and technology is driving that change. Today, that observation is about as compelling as the insight that water runs downhill. It’s just what technology (and water) […]

Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.

Estonia has combined a belief in learning with equal-access technology to create one of world’s best education systems.