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New bikes could be on their way to your local bikeshare system. PBSC Urban Solutions, the largest supplier of bicycles and stations in North America, has unleashed a pair of brand-new models designed to give riders a broader choice of how they use the system.
An estimated 10 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have access to the Internet. Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is trying to find a way to bring isolated communities online, but in order to do so, it needs to know where they live.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced he’s standing with Tim Cook and Apple’s decision. He agreed that complying with the FBI order to create a backdoor for the iPhone would set a dangerous precedent.
The U.S. wind industry saw huge growth in 2015. The American Wind Energy Association announced this week that the industry installed more wind power than any other electric source.
In a row over how to bring Internet access to India’s poorest, Facebook almost sounds colonial.
The self-driving car is the future of personal transportation. Wireless charging is the future of battery-powered devices. Marrying the two technologies makes sense.
France is building a solar energy system on top of its roadways.
College textbooks are a racket. Financial aid infrequently covers their cost. A significant percentage of students are forced to use credit cards to purchase them. This is one of the unseen contributors to student debt.
People who prevail in competitions have an unfortunate tendency to swindle others to keep up their winning streaks. Even a small win against an unfamiliar foe in a game with very low stakes seems to light a fire that makes it easier to swindle and defraud our fellow human beings.
Google has been testing a new kind of Internet-delivery system out in New Mexico. Project Skybender would not only beam down Internet from the skies through solar-powered drones, but also provide speeds 40 times faster than 4G LTE.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists worries technological advancements are going unchecked. The group asks that regulatory bodies be established to help assess and prevent risks.
How “the stats” are being used often causes a fog of low-quality quantification. Multiple regression is widely misunderstood by researchers and journalists.
Google.org is trying to help refugees regain the lives they lost.
Photographer Eric Pickersgill has imagined a strange new world. One not unlike our own.
Free riders choose to reap the rewards of a public good without paying their portion of the cost necessary to produce it.
Science’s picture of the world is being updated. It’s adding algomorphic thinking to its palette.
This is what anonymous browsing looks like.
The Chinese middle class is growing, and its members need a place to live.
Bringing a whole new meaning to phrase “couch surfing.”
When you remove the content, all that’s left are soothing, colorful boxes.
The good news: New York State just set up a site where residents can directly vote on whether or not they support the bill.
Jobs have doubled in the past five years.
Tesla may have been the spark necessary to ignite the electric car industry.
Can colorblindness be eliminated simply by changing our approach to diagnostics? Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats claims it can be.
The snake oil salesmanship that is Lumosity.
An innovative wooden toy teaches children the basics of programming without the need for literacy or screen devices.
Despite all those weeks sunning themselves and enjoying breaks from work, the French are among the most productive workers in the world. Americans could be, too.
For the 70 million people who speak with their hands.
There is a lot of hypocrisy in the way Naomi Oreskes attacks four renowned climate scientists.