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Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded the range of these possibilities to fields such as computer gaming, education, entertainment, health, neuromarketing, psychology, etc.
A new theory argues consciousness creates neural activity, and humans have evolved to see what is needed for survival. Perception, it is argued, is a user interface which may not necessarily be real.
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement focused on answering one question: How can we best help others?
BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for.
UFOs are about to make their way to the U.S. Senate. Here's what to know.
Decades after flying saucers first captured Americans' imaginations, Navy videos that defy explanation have sparked legitimate inquiries — some of them from senators.
Gensler principal Kirsten Ritchie shares her views on why this trendy tech may help crack the code on environment-friendly buildings.
Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently, and very efficiently. For instance, while the transfer of a share of stock can now take up to a week, with blockchain it could happen in seconds. Blockchain could slash the cost of transactions and eliminate intermediaries like lawyers and bankers, and that could transform the economy. But, like the adoption of more internet technologies, blockchain’s adoption will require broad coordination and will take years. In this article the authors describe the path that blockchain is likely to follow and explain how firms should think about investments in it.
An international taskforce tackles global heating in this chilling yet hopeful vision of how the next few decades might unfold
State employee spotted mysterious metal structure amid red rocks while counting bighorn sheep
In the midst of the constant bad news about climate change, Drawdown is a breath of fresh air.
For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station.
A nest is “a disordered stick bomb,” resilient in ways that humans have hardly begun to understand, much less emulate.
Harvard professor’s radical theory of dark matter wiping out the dinosaurs and enigmatic research on extra dimensions has made her a true trailblazer