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How can you use new tools, techniques, and technologies to rethink your personal productivity and enhance your future self?
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Apps that warn about close contact with COVID-19 cases can help relax social distancing rules.
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Because they didn’t have a space program.
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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.
With the right technology, we can continue to “flatten the curve,” even as we venture out of our homes.
Billions of dollars have been lost on custom government IT projects that were eventually canceled.
The best and worst of yesterday has created the economy of today.
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The system can even be designed to send alerts to employees when they’ve come too close to a coworker.
AutoML-Zero is a proof-of-concept project that suggests the future of machine learning may be machine-created algorithms.
He’s also credited by some as having coined the phrase “user-friendly.”
The smart toilet can analyze urine and stool samples for disease markers and can even recognize an individual user’s “analprint”.
Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?
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If you surreptitiously pick your nose, chances are that everyone can see you doing it.
A global brainstorming marathon is throwing together brilliant ideas from around the world to rapidly develop solutions to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
A team of scientists created a new type of robot inspired by an octopus, and it could be a major breakthrough in the field.
Simple tricks for hacking back your device.
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How can we track the spread of COVID-19 where testing is not widely available? How can global health be improved by innovation and cooperation? Over the last few years, Kinsa […]
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While our world is in a period of indefinite stasis, people’s needs aren’t. Now is the time to become positive disruptors, creating the transformations that need to happen to make […]
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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.
New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.
New study of gamma rays and gravitational lensing points to the possible presence of dark matter.
Tech is rising and America’s middle class is vanishing. Here’s what to do.
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Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?
Distraction at work is a symptom of cultural dysfunction, not a symptom of technology, as many people claim.
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A NASA-sponsored competition asks participants to improve the design of a bucket drum for moon excavation.
And the first sci-fi weapon the Space Force gets is….a device to scramble communications?
Through experiencing time in a nonlinear way, can artificial intelligence provide us more perspective?
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Despite potential good intentions, interventionist policies are often viewed by classical liberals as violations of individual freedoms.
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