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A slice of pizza might just be a better choice than breakfast cereal when you get up in the morning. Cheers!
Can't find meaning in your life? A new study has the next best thing.
A new technology hopes to provide customers with "human surrogates" who strap screens to their faces so they can interact with the world on customers' behalf.
Computer control in the form of AI and brain-computer interfaces is being introduced to the art of composing.
In her book, Rise of the Necrofauna, Britt Wray reports on the ethics and science behind de-extinction.
If everything goes right, astronomy will take a magnificent leap into the future. But here’s what needs to happen first. Back in 2000, NASA held their decadal survey, choosing what would […]
"Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety."
There's grave concern over one particularly vulnerable group in the city.
People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and […]
The virtual reality that's coming is like nothing we've ever experienced. Now's the time to decide what it's good for.
Singer-songwriter Ryan O'Neal composes the songs of the cosmos.
The capabilities on this thing are both impressive and worrisome.
Hasbro is releasing a Cheaters Edition Monopoly that encourages players to get ahead in any way they can.
Facebook's Q4 earnings call was a mixed bag, with many indications that the company is now feeling the effects of social media fatigue among a significant portion of their userbase.
“Can you imagine if they said, ‘Bacon-bacon-bacon?' Everyone on the line would be like, ‘Where, where?’” former Giants defensive end Justin Tuck has pointed out.
Experts caution about the dangers of the current technological revolution at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
San Francisco takes a bold new step regarding marijuana laws and convictions.
Do you ever act irrationally? You probably have. Let's take a look at how to fix that.
Like it or not, you are a lot like your friends.
How relatable was Trump’s speech? To evaluate this objectively, you could look at what reading level it was at.