The Present

We can either be fearful of artificial intelligence, or embrace it as a tool to help us improve service.

“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.

From LED-equipped visors to transparent masks, these inventions aim to thwart facial recognition cameras.

Scientists discover the inner workings of an effect that will lead to a new generation of devices.

We’re blissfully ignorant of how we put ourselves at risk online.

How do you convince people to break the habit of a lifetime?

Discrimination against people because of their age is a real phenomenon.

Move over deepfakes. Multi-agent artificial intelligence is poised to manipulate your mind.

There’s concrete tradeoff logic lurking beneath the numbers and market abstractions.

But the U.S. remains an “innovation powerhouse,” according to the annual report from the World Economic Forum.

Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker reminds us that innuendo and euphemism yield better quid pro quo results than an “or else” ultimatum.

When measuring for the future, there is much to consider.

Increasingly sophisticated automation technology can save big money for banks by paring down the workforce.

“We made America great,” one Russian operative joked as Trump’s victory became clear.

Is capitalism naturally unempathetic?

With teamwork and clearly-stated goals, big transformations can take place — swiftly.

The new trust busting battles begin.

Dr. Joel Smithers was recently sentenced to decades in prison for the numerous illegal prescriptions he gave out.

So much has changed since 1893. Why not the education system?

Why were the Nazis so enamored with the occult, pseudoscience, and magic?

Can we radically shift our perception of who should be enacting real change in K-12 education?

What image of femininity is subtly imposed on us in the war against toxic masculinity?

As humans, we teach each other. But do we take for granted our freedom to do so?

Turkish government is trying to silence its own.

“At this point our data is more valuable than oil,” Yang said. “If anyone benefits from our data it should be us.”

In hopes of saving their countries, many small nations are making big promises on cutting emissions.

The recent discovery highlights an alarming cybersecurity vulnerability in the health care industry.

If economic growth knowingly increases mass-scale suffering, can we stop chasing it?

Could Jerome Segal lead the country toward the utopia of our American dreams?

As it turns out, hacking an election isn’t as hard as you’d think.