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Abstract digital collage featuring a hand holding a phone with news content, binary code, and a stylized onion logo against a green and blue pixelated background.
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
A drawing shows a person's side profile on the left, with dashed lines leading to a second drawing on the right where the facial features are replaced by a question mark, hinting at a lack of perceptivity.
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
a man sitting in a wheel chair next to a laptop.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
A map of europe with pink dots on it.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
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One day, this powerful tool could be in millions of smartphones.
If the laws of physics are symmetrical as we think they are, then the Big Bang should have created matter and antimatter in the same amount.
The UAE is the first Arab nation to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet.
Does a person still get to be "the honorable" if they are tossed out for not being honorable?
The bill would effectively legalize marijuana at the federal level, while allowing states to draft their own laws.
Recently, Tron appears to have been at the center of the latest fake news scandal to hit the crypto world. It started on July 8, after Twitter user Hayden Otto […]
Is the appendix a useless organ, an immune system benefactor, a Parkinson's disease instigator, or all of the above?
On Tuesday, eight science-credentialed candidates were elected to the House of Representatives.
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In an unprecedented summit on Tuesday, North Korea has pledged to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, though the vague promise comes with significant concessions from the U.S.
At least 60 will be running at the federal level, and thousands for state offices.
A new C is coming to the C-suite: The Chief Robotics Officer, or CRO. Do I hear laughter or detect an eye roll? Think again. The bots are coming. Business […]
Scientists are starting to run for office to bring evidence-based reasoning back to government.
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.
How new developments in measuring the highest-energy particles and earliest signals from the Universe are teaching us what all this is. Big questions in the field of Cosmology are often […]
On October 15, 2013, the City Council of Cupertino, California, debated for 6 hours before finally approvingApple’s plans for a new $5 billion USD office headquarters to be built in […]
The public gains made by AI, such as beating chess champions and winning Jeopardy tournaments, have ironically also demonstrated its limits.
MIT doctoral student Kuang Xu has created a mathematical formula that can reduce the amount of time injured people wait for medical attention in the emergency room by ten percent.
NewSpace SmallCaps often face challenges: tight budgets, game-changing competition, lengthy development schedules and cash flow crunches. To reduce some of this pain, NewSpace companies have found significant advantages in tapping […]
Business journalism powerhouse Leigh Gallagher has some tough advice for her own, younger self: Be more aggressive. Pay attention to your career, not just your to-do list. And ask for what you want. 
Shakespeare’s Caius Martius Coriolanus isn’t really suited to politics, but his family and friends urge him on, and so he makes a game effort at putting up with the smelly […]
How do you turn a liability into an asset? Ed Conard, a former colleague of Mitt Romney's at Bain Capital, says Romney's history with the company should be an asset because Romney is an "outstanding business executive" who always took the longview.