Technology & Innovation

Their hyper-repetitive patterns mean video games vastly outgun older emotech… like movies, or novels. Some emotech helps you be more human. Some reduces your “humanity.” We shape our emotech, and then it shape us.

The first step is recognition. 

Researchers transfer quantum data over 100 km of optical fiber.

The Star Trek computer is close. Phasers can’t be far behind.

A plant that redefines the relationship between the industrial facilities and the community.

Scientists weigh in on the controversy.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has dropped a study on whether living near a nuclear plant increases the risk of cancer. Criticism of this decision is predictable, but unwarranted. The study would only have found what other research has shown. There is no link

Volvo is spearheading an effort to develop refuse robots and tech-enhanced dump trucks to revolutionize waste management.

It’s able to see patterns rather than all possible solutions.

After years of logging your likes and shares, Facebook is about to use them to create better targeted ads.

If you live in China, Finland, or Switzerland, you could be closer to receiving your packages from flying robots. Meanwhile, the FAA is not taking action on drone regulation.

Both Germany and Sweden, two countries that have accepted a large proportion of asylum seekers, also have strong economies.

Lately, we’ve become so infatuated with creating the next big thing, rushing headlong into crafting new technologies that we’ve neglected to think through the ethics of it. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.

Seeking to right past wrongs and bring privacy back into the hands of the people.

Elon Musk says nuking Mars would get it nice and toasty for humans. Is that really within the realm of possibility?

Leaders at the Federal Reserve will meet later this month to discuss potential rate hikes that have most experts and economists split.

We’re seeing a shift in our economy toward subscription-based programs.

Algorithms are in charge of hiring people and data collection. You should have the right to know what they’re saying about you.

The current length of maternity leave is one-size-fits-all, but what does that say about the value we place on balancing work and family?

Showing dominance in a negotiation seems like a sure-fire way to win, but a new study challenges that notion. 

It starts with how we approach education.

This company promises to not only improve your showering experience, but also help you use 70 percent less water.

Disagreement helps prevent a company from becoming stale and succumbing to groupthink.

In a study that challenges conventional wisdom, two researchers determine that deftly playing office politics has a tendency to backfire.

Shell has permission to drill off the coast of Alaska, but other oil companies are warning of potentially harmful long-term consequences.

While the world’s most popular cryptocurrency has allowed for an innovative new approach to online transactions, it’s also emboldened criminals to develop creative new ways to skirt the law. 

Economists have been experimenting with randomized controlled trials to find out.

It’s a well-oiled machine with a mission to better search, maps, and Android.

It’s not breaking news that the universe is slowly dying. It is significant that scientists have been able to finally measure the degree to which it’s dying. Let’s just say you should push up any appointments you might have 100 billion years from now.

Place matters, and it may matter more in older age than at any other stage of life. Where we live shapes the contours of our daily experience, determining our access […]