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The National Intelligence Council predicts a radically transformed future.

Snapchat, the mobile photo app popular with teens for taking self-pics, is adding video on Friday, expanding the app to a new dimension.

Imagine becoming superhuman. Or, at the very least, becoming superhumanly good at your job. A new prescription allows you total focus. Total composure. Genius-level clarity of thought, and the ability to stay up, in the zone, for two days straight.

h+ Magazine is a new publication that covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways.

Robots keep surpassing us in domains considered distinctly human (

FlyViz (credit: Jérôme Ardouin et al.) Have you ever dreamed of having eyes in the back of your head? Yeah, we haven't either, but FlyVIZ, designed by

The executive chairman of Google says that the three great economic trends of our time are globalization, demography and automation, and together they will create a worldwide crisis in employment.

Sumi Das examines how a bike using technology found on the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope can stand up by itself.

Johnny Depp's highly guarded sci-fi film "Transcendence" -- from the team behind "Inception" -- will delve into the cutting edge of science, from nanotechnology to singularity

The most comprehensive disease report ever produced confirms that, for the first time, there is a larger health problem from people eating too much than

Companies that keep their research and manufacturing employees close together, where they can share information, might be more innovative than other businesses.

Exponentially-advancing technologies could provide an indefinite lifespan by mid-century or before, experts say. Many factors drive this futuristic prospect forward:

Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has had a side project for over 10 years. He’s created a computer system that can write books about specific subjects in about 20 minutes.

Are we close to a world where culture automatically and magically creates infinitely more culture?!…

Simple things that we take for granted, like flipping a switch and having light suddenly appear, aren't so simple in developing countries. This fantastic gravity powered light may change that, if their Indiegogo project is successful.

Artifice and Consent in the Age of RoboticsThe notion of robot love has a long history, and by far the dominant emphasis has been on its erotic manifestation.