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IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?

Cook’s commencement speech at Tulane University urges students to take action.

Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.

Radio-frequency signals can be used to track peoples’ movements in their own homes.

Don’t start investing in flux capacitors just yet, though.

Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”

A new book on the music distribution service claims it is.

Depending on the answer, one of the famous unsolved Millennium problems could have major implications in our lives.

A tool that can slowly build a better world.

The most powerful editors in the world? Algorithms.

A new AI-produced commercial from Lexus shows how AI might be particularly suited for the advertising industry.

Detailed (and beautiful) information on 57 million crop fields across the U.S. and Europe are now available online.

Can algorithms use collective knowledge to make us all internet explorers?

Easter eggs have been hidden in video games since Atari’s Adventure; now Google search has hidden an entire adventure game.

A supervised learning algorithm can predict clinical depression much earlier and more accurately than trained health professionals.

Researchers at Human Longevity have developed technology that can generate images of individuals face using only their genetic information. But not all are convinced.

Scientists have developed an algorithm that reliably detects the signs of Alzheimer’s dementia before its onset. 

Evolution exists and exerts itself in a different way than gravity does… because natural selection is an “algorithmic force.” 

Facebook can flip your digital identity on and off at the switch; that is way too much power for any corporation to have, says Oliver Luckett — and we handed it to them.