
Warning: Your New Digital World Is Highly Addictive
Technology now is designed to make it “irresistible,” argues psychology and marketing professor Adam Alter

Warning: Your New Digital World Is Highly Addictive
Technology now is designed to make it “irresistible,” argues psychology and marketing professor Adam Alter

Wireless Phone Charging Picks Up Steam
Newer technologies, growing consumer interest and adoption by gadget makers are breathing fresh air into the concept


3-D Printing Modification Yields Adorable Micro-Tools
A new method of 3-D printing draws inspiration from the semiconductor industry

Artificial Intelligence Is Not a Threat—Yet
Artificial intelligence as existential threat

The Search for a New Test of Artificial Intelligence
Researchers need new ways to distinguish artificial intelligence from the natural kind

Your Echo Is Listening, Which Could Someday Lead to an Invasion of Your Privacy
A murder case raises concerns about the “Internet of Things”

Is Television Ownership on the Decline?
Televisions and their peripheral equipment account for about 6% of total electricity consumption in U.S. homes. But, the average number of televisions in U.S. households is on the decline, according to the DOE’s most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS).

Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now

Human Activity Will Heat Alaskan Skies—Deliberately and Picturesquely
This week powerful radio waves will disturb the ionosphere to probe satellite disruptions and create strange glows

Facebook, Google and Others Launch Drive against Fake News in France
Social media and news outlets team up as ahead of the country’s presidential election

“Escape Room” Game Challenges Physics-Phobes to Face Their Fear
A quantum leap in problem-solving is the only way out of a university’s new LabEscape scenario game

What Facebook Is Doing to Combat Fake News
The social network has rolled out new tools to deal with this growing problem