Smartphone Addiction Alters Brain Chemistry in Young People for the Worse
Being addicted to your smartphone can affect your safety and your health. New research shows a connection to a lack of neural chemicals that affect your ability to focus.
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Net Neutrality: What Is It and Why Do People Care?
Have you read news coverage of the “net neutrality” issue and then still wondered what it is exactly? If so, you’re not alone.
Smart Cities May Be the Death of Privacy as We Know It
Every day — just through our smartphones, credit cards, et cetera — we leave behind us lots of digital footprints, which are recorded thousands of times every day and stored somewhere in the Cloud.
Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie
We must learn to humanize digital life as actively as we’ve digitized human life—here’s how.
What Is the Computational Power of the Universe?
Can a close look at the universe give us solutions to problems too difficult for a computer – even if we built a computer larger than a planet?
Why the Singularity Is Certain to Happen in My Own Lifetime
The inflection point at which computers, ‘thinking machines’ and AI may become infinitely and recursively powerful is no more than 20–25 years away, at most—and it might be as soon as 12–15 years from today.
Google to Create Its Own Neighbourhood with Weather Management Systems and ‘Flexible’ Buildings
Google is set to build a “new kind” of high-tech neighbourhood that will be unlike anywhere else in the world.
Big Data Meets Big Brother as China Moves to Rate Its Citizens
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents.