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Chinese hackers at DEFCON have demonstrated how they were able to hack an Amazon Echo unit, enabling them to listen and record unsuspecting targets.
Why is only 10% of the population left-handed? There are a few new scientific clues pointing to the answer.
The short answer is that an exact copy of the website was hacked, yes. In just 10 minutes. By an 11-year-old kid.
We think of ourselves as rational beings, but our cognitive biases often mean our decisions are based on instincts and emotions. Here are five times cognitive biases pushed Americans to advance foreign policies that stood against the country’s best interests.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, says she’s recorded multiple secret audio tapes at the White House, including one of her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
We know not getting enough sleep is bad for us, this study gives us yet another reason to get a few more hours in.
If we want to reach for the stars, we have to start in our own backyard. By looking at the sky alone, we can see the apparent, angular sizes of […]
Reddit can reveal a lot, depending on how you interpret the data.
Sometimes lacking proper language is just a failure of imagination.
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How do companies keep getting you to buy the "latest and greatest" iteration of the product you already own? By testing the boundaries.
China is investing a gargantuan amount of money in Africa, but it's leaving many in the global community concerned as to why.
Like it or not, agreements made between hackers in Germany, Prague, and elsewhere could reconfigure the economy… and a frightening new world.
The speed of death isn't as instantaneous as you may think.
You've probably seen it hanging around. But how did it get there? And can we live there?
People in the West are constantly encouraged to sleep less and accomplish more. But the science behind sleep deprivation shows why that's a terrible idea.
Englishman Andy Pardy is traveling 18,000 miles (30,000 km) across Europe this summer to make a continent-sized political statement
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Meeting people is easy. Just ask award-winning author and "most connected millennial" Jared Kleinert.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft taught us more than we ever imagined about Saturn. Could we do something similar for Uranus and Neptune? From where we are in the Solar System, looking out […]