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Some financial companies look at potential borrowers' social media footprint -- including their friends and, eventually, their friends' credit scores -- to determine whether they qualify.
Within the field of artificial intelligence, a new Japanese initiative promises to further blur the line between human and machine. A group of AI researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics just […]
A California school district says that safety is the reason why it hired tracking company Geo Listening to monitor students' posts.
The government spends $4 billion a year, pays for 10 billion servings of soda for poor people every year.
Should companies have secrets? Sometimes they should, but I think companies too much believe that secrets are their secret sauce.
Weapons-grade chemicals such as sarin are "possibly some of the most dangerous things that humans have ever made, after the atom bomb."
As people search for ways to make their passwords more secure, the makers of a free tool announce that their code can now crack passwords of as many as 55 characters in length in a radically short period of time.
If a doctor looked at you or me thoroughly enough, with all the diagnostic tools now at her disposal, she could almost certainly find something wrong. A spot here, […]
Nordic Choice CEO Petter Stordalen laid down the new law after becoming involved with UNICEF's campaign against child trafficking and exploitation.
What would it look like to fly through the distant universe? The video below is a 3-D model of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the most distant fields of galaxies ever imaged.
For most Americans, the Amish way of forgiveness is difficult to comprehend. It's sourced deeply within their way of life, which is grounded in compassionate, unyielding faith.
Having a strategic plan is a vital aspect of any successful organization. Unfortunately, most organizations have strategic plans that are really financial plans in disguise. And the larger the organization, […]
Driving through Yosemite a few years ago, we came upon a blackened patch of the park still smelling burnt. By the look of this map, it must have been the […]
The three cities chosen by the IOC as finalists for the 2020 Games—Madrid, Istanbul, and Tokyo—are facing an unprecedented wave of internal opposition.
This past weekend people gathered in the nation’s capitol to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that was part of the […]
Whether Americans agree with Secretary John Kerry or not that attacks on civilians by the Syrian government are a "moral obscenity," only 9 percent support military intervention.
Two scientists with different perspectives don't have to agree on the merits, but they have to agree on why they disagree.
When I speak to friends in the music industry they often lament the fact that it isn’t like the old days where the record label got behind you.
As the Arctic ice continues to melt due to rising global temperatures, Russia is aggressively pursuing new trading routes.