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More people are looking up panic and anxiety attacks in quarantine.
It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.
Using modern tools, a team of astronomers uses celestial sleuthing to figure out when Vermeer painted his masterpiece “View of Delft.”
The line between work and play has became blurred during the pandemic.
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.
Are we genetically inclined for superstition or just fearful of the truth?
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Can this end flat-Earth theory once and for all?
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With the coronavirus pandemic upending summer plans, now’s the perfect time to learn something new.
Was the hamburger menu always so ubiquitous?
Online dating has evolved, but at what cost?
Google is probably wrong about your health condition.
The institutional barriers that have often held creative teaching back are being knocked down by the coronavirus era.
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The key to raising indistractable kids is to first determine why they’re distracted.
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Despite being raised in a screen-lit world, today’s children make and maintain friendships as well as past generations.
The coronavirus pandemic offers online education companies a chance to prove themselves.
The best and worst of yesterday has created the economy of today.
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Just because your team has gone remote doesn’t mean you need to be vulnerable to hacks, breaches, and scams.
Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?
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A global brainstorming marathon is throwing together brilliant ideas from around the world to rapidly develop solutions to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Simple tricks for hacking back your device.
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Ad Fontes Media wants to educate readers on where to find reliable sources of news and lessen the heat from the political flame wars.
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
Video meetings on the popular platform don’t seem to offer end-to-end encryption as advertised.
The rules have changed, and so have we.
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This video game designer’s creations have been said to work “neurological magic.”
Tech is rising and America’s middle class is vanishing. Here’s what to do.
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Flattening the curve on panic and disinformation.
We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?
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These three tactics will help you focus on the task at hand.
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“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.