In Five Years, Your Smartphone Could Be Reading Your Mind
New technology enables thought to be translated into audible words with surprising accuracy by reading user’s brainwaves. The developers say they might be able to get the device to work with smartphones via an app in just five years.
The Science of ‘I Was Just Following Orders’
New studies help to explain how seemingly good people come to do terrible things in these circumstances: When obeying someone else, they do indeed often feel that they aren’t acting intentionally.
United Airlines Should’ve Known That Blaming the Victim Always Backfires
Blaming the victim: a problematic, pathetic tactic in the crisis communication playbook that invariably backfires.
It’s not Trump who ordered attacks on Syria, it’s the Deep State
The deep state might sound like a conspiracy, but if the current situation in Syria is anything to go by, there is no better explanation.
Scientists Have Created an Artificial Synapse That Can Learn Autonomously
A team of researchers has developed artificial synapses that are capable of learning autonomously and can improve how fast artificial neural networks learn.
Remembering Chuck Berry
The rock ‘n’ roll legend—who died at the age of 90—was a fierce guitarist and unparalleled raconteur.
Rampant ‘Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder’ Becomes an Epidemic
As the Election Day results were tallied and news of Hillary’s defeat spread throughout the United States, small breakouts of a rare mental episode began to spread like wildfire through masses of liberal millennials and progressive idealists who voted against Trump, morphing into a psychological epidemic of epic proportions this country has never before experienced.