Technology & Innovation

Tesla announced it’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was involved in its first deadly crash on May 7, 2016. This marks the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. However, this tragedy should not hinder progress.

Emotional hacking is real with implications toward mental health. What if this got into the wrong hands? We could be joyously enslaved without the emotional countenance to fight back.   

Email takes up a lot of our time and often results in little real work getting done at the end of the work day. Many enterprises are finding the less it’s used, the less time gets wasted. Productivity goes up and stress goes down.

New research combines what we know about the mental health benefits of walking with avoiding family dysfunction and saving our minds from technological distraction.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what’s so completely mind-blowing about the great mind of Sir Isaac Newton.

Mongolia becomes the world’s first country to switch to the what3words system of addresses.

United Egg Producers agree to eliminate male chick culling by switching to in-ovo terminations.

Actors try to make sense out of an AI-written screenplay in the movie Sunspring.

A report by a team of scientists highlights the dangers of “gene drive” technology that can eliminate unwanted species.

The FAA has issued a mysterious advisory telling pilots not to trust their GPS for several days this June.

New studies shed light on a species of half-size humans who lived in Indonesia 700,000 years ago.

With apps and digital connectivity ruling our lives, the need to physically be somewhere is less urgent. So what does this mean for robotic or driverless cars? Will the Millennial generation’s cold shoulder for cars affect the way they cost, look, and hit the market?

Poaching of African elephants has been a huge problem for decades, and the U.S. just took a major step toward addressing the issue.

Racial bias has been around forever it seems, but it can show up in ugly ways on apps like Airbnb and Nextdoor. Here’s what they’re planning to do about it.

When it comes to finding meaning in the workplace, bosses can’t do much for you. But individual reflection can help.

In Japan, kawaii, the love of cuteness, is both culture and science, and it’s taking over the world.

Google has announced final design plans for the first modular smartphone, the project Ara. However, Dave Hakkens, who nurtured this idea for a modular device, isn’t happy with the final product.

Nanotech could revolutionize diagnostics, research and development, drug delivery, tissue repair, and so much more. But challenges remain, and certain threats may arise out of this new technology.   

Waverly Labs has developed a universal language translator that sits in your ear. It’s called the Pilot.

DC taxi drivers will be collaborating with company Delivery.com to provide on-demand lunch service in DC. Could this been a new model for the “sharing economy?”

A recent study out of Australia has crunched data over a 29-year timespan and found no correlation between cellphone usage and brain cancer. Hooray!

Robots have reached the field of law in an age where jobs are disappearing to technology advances every year.

Shell has had an oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. We can compare it to BP, but the magnitude is much different. Cleanup strategies could be different too.

Our collective story is what makes sense of what we perceive.

Venture capitalists 1776 and other partners have created a ranking of the top 25 cities that are ready for the digital economy. Some are straightforward, while others are surprising.

You might already have the lived experience of how difficult it can be to work and be a mom at the same time. But you might not have thought about how where you live plays a role.

Baba Ramdev has built a $670 million company on the back of yoga’s soaring popularity. Is his ethics in alignment with yoga’s teachings? 

Bikeshare has been around for almost 10 years now, but there have never been any deaths. Researchers look into the reasons why.

Technology has helped us prolong life indefinitely. But that brings with it a lot of ethical questions, and questionable practices when it comes to brain death. 

With a new lobby, driverless cars could gain some legitimacy and legislation for the road. The question is whether they are good for the environment or not.