Philosophy, Thoughts and Society

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp.

Jobs in the hidden market are much better than the jobs listed in the public market.The point of this article is to strongly suggest that job-seekers should only spend 20% of their time working the

The US Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that will determine whether human genes may be patented.

Can you use more useful information in your business and don't know where to find it. Then read this IBM white paper to see how using your staff can use the pow

The ability to automatically select relevant sensory information is as important to intelligence as the ability to process it quickly, says Dr Duje Tadin

Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.

若你們在意金融世界的發展，在美國佔了七成買賣的高頻交易已實質地改變我們的城市和地理環境。 ...

Just now I attended an event organized by the Club of Amsterdam ("Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Society") about the Future of Digital Identity at Info.nl. After getting a badge and being pho...

Jane Austen was a seminal thinker in the as-yet-unnamed science of game theory, the author Michael Chwe maintains in his new book.

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, founder/CEO of CareerCup, and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume: Allow me to draw a picture.

Shodan is an Internet search engine capable of finding just about every connected thing imaginable.

Looking to hire for creativity? Research says you should look for these traits (but, be warned, not all of them make someone easy to work with).

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

Buzzle.com is abuzz with information on diverse topics ranging from animals to tourism. It's your complete source for news, articles and categorized information.

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Creative Commons has grown tremendously since we started.

Last February, in an interview with the technology blog TechCrunch, a senior Google executive expressed a rather philosophical—even postmodernist—view on the future of maps.

The creative era we live is an age of unprecedented possibility compared with the industrial age. Major shifts are taking place: ideas matter more than money and as there are more people with good ...

Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms.

Everyone knows that the Internet has changed how businesses operate, governments function, and people live. But a new, less visible technological trend is proving just as transformative: big data.

It's right up there with food, sex and drugs when its comes to stirring up pleasure responses in our brains.

Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games, and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back? An exclusive excerpt from Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

At the end of her rope with four young kids, a mother turns to an unlikely adviser—and learns how hardheaded rule can secure stability and happiness in the home.