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A new National Intelligence Estimate report says that China is the primary culprit behind "massive, sustained" hacking into systems affecting a wide range of industries.
The demo video shows Raytheon's Riot using social media to "gain an entire snapshot of a person's life...in little more than a few clicks of a button."
"Pay attention to that alley over there. A gorilla in a clown suit is going to come out of it in a second." If I said that to you, and […]
Beam Inc. is reducing the volume of alcohol in its Maker's Mark brand by 3 percent in order to stretch its dwindling supply.
Lincoln represents the type of leader who knows "he is doing something noble and worthwhile. But the noble quest is far more important than they are."
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues that we need to break out of our "A-to-B thinking" in order to bring big, audacious ideas into existence. 
For an additional fee (of course), passengers can sit in a "Quiet Zone" that's separated from the rest of economy class by curtains, bathrooms, and softer lighting.
Some time in March a puff of white smoke will rise over St. Peter's Square. Will it signal a Pope from Africa? 
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Abraham Lincoln's humility comes from a lot of places, but it probably starts with his sense of empathy.
You run the innovation playbook – a prophetic strategy, a product development obstacle course of a process, a portfolio management radar detection system and a wide array of eccentric creativity […]
Chances are your company is one of the many taking a “wait and see” approach to one or more business issues right now. The approach plays out like this: “Should […]
“Ain't got no rest in my slumbers/ Ain't got no feelings to bruise/ Ain't got no telephone numbers/ I ain't got nothing but the blues,” goes Jazz composer Duke Ellington’s […]
Last Thursday, private vehicles were banned from the Colombian capital's streets. It's one of several attempts to decrease car traffic that have had mixed success.
The country's projected to become the largest film market by 2020, and the effects are already being seen in various aspects of the industry, including investor funding and story choices.
Several high-profile projects that aim to replicate the processes of the human brain have recently received enormous grants. Still, completing the projects is not the ultimate goal, say researchers.
We used to live in a world where content producers chose the channels of distribution. Now the consumers choose.* That means the producer has to deliver the message over many […]
Driving one comes with incentives such as free street parking, free charging, and a nice tax break. Yet several barriers stand in the way of increased EV adoption.
Some things that you think happened to you probably didn't. That's just the nature of memory, says popular author and neurology professor Oliver Sacks, and that's a good thing.
The origin of Valentine’s Day has nothing to do with love and everything to do with “torturous martyrdom.” On second thought, perhaps the origin of Valentine’s Day has a great deal to do with love.
The computational theory of the mind, which has come to dominate academic and popular circles, is increasingly inadequate to explain human behavior given what we know about animals.