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How useful are the algorithms dating sites use? According to one regulatory agency, not very.
Proposers’ strategies must be successful in one of three different environments.
A new year. A new chance to make it big in the hyper-competitive field of commentary. Will you make the cut this week and get plucked from our 2 million Facebook followers?
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Sometimes the best strategy is to think completely outside the box. Or not have a strategy at all.
The U.S. State Department’s “Countries of Concern" include North Korea, Myanmar, and more. But how close is America itself to earning a place on the list?
Nissan is developing technology that controls the car by reading the driver's brain waves.
Is high IQ really something that can genuinely turn people on? Apparently so — but only to a certain point.
This list of 10 non-winners is 50% women, but 100% outrageous. In science, advances often come in great leaps. In hindsight, it’s easy to identify perhaps hundreds of small steps […]
Could it simply be pleasure for its own sake?
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History is littered with thousands of things that tried to appeal to everyone and yet failed miserably. If you want true success, try to appeal to a core group.
A vanished people in a vanished place.
Our survival is rooted in theirs.
Scientists find that a drug meant for another illness may significantly help Alzheimer's patients.
The rise of driverless cars will save lives, time, and spark a $7 Trillion "Passenger Economy." But it will also destroy jobs. What should we do?
Scientists come up with an explanation for the strange dimming of Tabby's star and it doesn't involve aliens.
Aiming for the nearest star would necessitate a whole slew of advances. Even if the mission fails, humanity wins by investing in itself. There have been some magnificent moments in NASA […]
Poachers trade on a black market estimated to total $40 billion. It’s impossible to stop every poacher, but new technology could bolster the efforts of conservationists by putting a set of eyes in the sky.
The fragility of digital memory could let the entire story of our time turn to sand.
Western conventional wisdom about animal ethics is that killing an animal is not the problem; the problem is making the animal suffer.
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Getting your vote to where it matters can be harder and more corrupt than it should be. Could blockchain technology build a better system and rebuild people's trust?