The Cognition Crisis
Anxiety. Depression. ADHD. Dementia. The human brain is in trouble. Technology is a cause — and a solution.

July 10, 2018 at 12:48AM
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Sorry, Power-Lunchers. These Tables Are Reserved For Drop-In Workers
Everything is a co-working space now — including upscale restaurants before they open for dinner.

July 9, 2018 at 05:07PM
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Another Fitness Tracking App Has Been Recklessly Revealing The Location Of Troops And Spies
Back in January​, a fitness app called Strava attracted some unflattering attention when security experts discovered that they could easily locate secret military bases on a public map of Strava users’ workouts. Now, almost the exact same thing has happened again with another fitness-tracker company called Polar.

July 9, 2018 at 02:36PM
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Sci-Fi Invades Netflix — As They Both Invade Your Home
Has Netflix’s sizeable investment in original science-fiction movies been a bust? By one popular metric, Rotten Tomatoes, the answer would seem to be: Categorically.

July 9, 2018 at 12:47PM
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The ‘Star Wars’ Cantina Theme, Played On A Bunch Of Old Floppy Drives
Settle in with a strong drink from the Mos Eisley and listen to a cover that’s out of this galaxy.

July 9, 2018 at 12:47PM
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Scientists Invented AI Made From DNA
Researchers made a neural network out of DNA that can recognize handwritten numbers.

July 9, 2018 at 11:31AM
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How Silicon Valley Fuels An Informal Caste System
One of the most refreshing things about living in Europe (or small towns in the rural US) is knowing that the poor aren’t condemned to a completely separate, and inferior, life. Your place in the world isn’t wholly defined by wealth. The story is rather different in San Francisco.

July 9, 2018 at 10:17AM
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Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame And Lots Of Cameras
Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.

July 9, 2018 at 08:56AM
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Forget Killer Robots: Autonomous Weapons Are Already Online
International discussions about lethal autonomous weapons have often ignored the fact that AI weaponry is already coursing through cyberspace.

July 9, 2018 at 07:46AM
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Polar Fitness Data Exposes Homes Of Soldiers And Intelligence Agents
Polar’s publicly available fitness data is making it easy to find the homes of military and spy agency personnel.

July 9, 2018 at 06:36AM
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