THE ONLY THING you know for sure is that you are conscious. All else is inference, however reasonable. There is something in your head that generates experiences: the words you are reading on this page, the snore of a bulldog on a red carpet, the perfume of roses on a desk. Your experience of such a scene is exclusive to you, and your impressions are integrated into one unified field of perception. It is like something to be you reading, hearing a dog, smelling flowers.

You’ve seen the headlines: “Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We’re Not Ready for It.” “You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think.” “Robots May Steal as Many as 800 Million Jobs in the Next 13 Years.”

An idea over 4,000 years old may hold the key to the future of refrigeration without electricity.

A startup called Evaptainers, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, is designing food-storage containers that cool food using evaporative cooling—the same process that keeps us cool when we sweat.

There is no need to emphasize that the internet is the foundation for technological advancements necessary to build a bridge to the future for cities and their governments.

But connectivity isn't yet at its peak in most cities across the U.S., and many still experience huge digital divides that manifest in lost opportunities for cities and residents. In fact, a new report from the National League of Cities (NLC) and the Internet Association (IA) titled "Here They Come: A Look at the Future of Cities in the Internet Age," finds that the internet alone contributes an average of 3.3 percent to city jobs and businesses. Moreover, cities with stronger internet economies are more likely to have a higher median income as well as lower levels of unemployment and poverty

Unlike most startup founders who saw the birth of the internet in the mid-1990s, I am still CEO of my company. My longevity in this position gives me a unique perspective on the changes that have h…

No, “humble narcissism” is not an oxymoron; it’s a combination of qualities that the best leaders and companies have. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains why.

Por aquí ya hemos hablado en alguna ocasión de los recursos imprescindibles para un profesor: páginas web, plataformas o sitios en los que encontrar ideas, actividades y, en general, todo tipo de materiales para usar en clase. También tenemos ideas para asignaturas más específicas, pero no nos habíamos parado a pensar en todos aquellos docentes que, día a día, utilizan su smartphone o tablet en el aula para gestionar notas y asistencia, comunicarse con las familias, realizar presentaciones o tomar notas. ¿Cuáles son las mejores apps para docentes? A continuación encontrarás una selección de aquellas que hacen más llevaderas las clases.

Did you notice how Google Search has changed? Or how speech recognition and language translation has got better? I am sure you haven’t missed the personalized recommendations on sites like Amazon and Netflix.

That’s machine learning and artificial intelligence at work as it shapes our everyday lives.

It’s also an in-demand career that is future proof for now. For experienced programmers, machine learning skills are also not too difficult to learn. It is just another programming challenge that can solve big problems.

Google is planning to adopt a blockchain-like ledger system, people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg. Google will use the tech, the report states, as a means of differentiating its cloud business from rivals. The company would also supposedly license the ledger system so that other companies could run it on their own servers.

Google was the second most active corporate investor in blockchain tech from the 2012 to 2017 period, according to CBInsights, just trailing after the Japan-based SBI Holdings. The company has also been investing and acquiring startups with digital ledger experience, the anonymous source told Bloomberg.

Anualmente, a divisão de investigação da IBM traça um mapa de previsões tecnológicas para os próximos cinco anos. O objetivo é demonstrar cinco tecnologias que a empresa acredita serem revolucionárias e capazes de transformar a sociedade e os negóciosnesse espaço de tempo de futuro. Na edição deste ano, o destaque do “5 in 5”, como é designado, vai para a evolução computacional que se adivinha, que segundo a IBM “excederá tudo aquilo que foi visto anteriormente”.

The science of happiness is of increasing interest to psychologists and to society in general. The questions at the heart of this discipline are: what makes us happy, and what sustains this happiness over time?

Si tuviéramos que definir a Nassim Nicholas Taleb con una sola palabra, sería «arrogante». Si dispusiéramos de dos, quizá elegiríamos «capullo arrogante». Y

É uma aplicação gratuita para quem gosta de passeios ao ar livre — e presta atenção a tudo por que passa. A proposta é semelhante à do Shazam, mas em vez de descobrir qual é a música que ouviste através de gravações de áudio, diz-te o nome da espécie que avistaste no parque da tua cidade ou durante um passeio na natureza, utilizando reconhecimento de imagem. Para isso, só precisas de tirar uma fotografia focada e próxima do ser vivo que queres identificar.

Os trabalhos de casa da cadeira incluem mostrar gratidão ou fazer boas acções.

Broadband internet access is more crucial now than ever before for ranchers and farmers in Northeast Missouri, and finding ways to reach underserved rural areas in the region are top priorities for stakeholders from the local area all the way to Washington, D.C.

Every so often, something will unite individuals in outrage who disagree furiously about virtually everything else. For the moment, that something is Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker’s latest book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.

Many of us hope to live a long life, which includes being of sound mind and body. While there's lots of education and emphasis on physical health as a way to live longer--maintaining a healthy weight, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, etc.--not nearly as much is discussed around keeping the brain in good working order long term.

The author of Blink and The Tipping Point teaches you how to find, research, and write stories that capture big ideas.

As you may have realized by now, Facebook can’t be trusted with your data, and has been caught out time and time again letting it leak out to places it shouldn’t. If you can’t quite bring yourself to close down your account—maybe there’s a support group or family connections you’d like to keep active—then here’s how to restrict the amount of data Facebook has got on you.

It was a Saturday night last December, and Oleksii Yasinsky was sitting on the couch with his wife and teenage son in the living room of their Kiev apartment. The 40-year-old Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher and his family were an hour into Oliver Stone’s film Snowden when their building abruptly lost power.

Drawing up technical standards is an early attempt to control how AI evolves worldwide.