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Ads are everywhere on the web, but they are also incredibly annoying. Can ad-based businesses survive in the long-term?

World population is widely projected to peak around 2050-90 at roughly 9-11B, with ~40% living in Africa. World population would then decline. But how long, and how far? The median respondent in my Twitter

Dark web holds secrets that most people wouldn't even want to know. Revealing the darkest places of the dark web in this article.

There are a lot of conspiracy theories related to the dark web. While most of them are fake, some are definitely worth considering.

As a child, nothing warmed me more than my mother’s “Three C’s Soup”: Cabbage, Carrot, Carraway from Jane Brody’s Good Food Book: Living the High Carbohydrate Way (published in 1980 and still in pr…

By standing together, we can build a better version of the tech industry.

Technology—the devices, the industry, the political ideology underpinning it, and the policy and legislative agendas around it—present critical tensions for rights and freedoms in the digital age which stand to impact all of us. So how can we have the requisite discussions when the same rhetorical weapons are repeatedly used to crush criticism?

You can learn a lot from utopias, even though you (probably) don’t live in one.

When AI Taylor Swift sings “My Way,” who gets paid?

Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Hackers have found a way into that data supply chain, and are advertising access in group chats used by violent criminals who rob, assault, and shoot targets.

The goal of Death Star is simple.

‘Working forests’ like state-run Tiger Mountain retain greenhouse gases — but logging is deeply entrenched in Northwest economies.

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

If you’ve never watched it, Kirby Ferguson’s “Everything is a Remix” series (which was recently updated from the original version that came out years ago) is an excellent look at how stupid our cop…

Most economic growth comes from innovation, not the accumulation of capital or labor. And innovation rates are mostly due to two competing factors. One the one hand, we pick the low hanging fruit of the easiest highest-payoff innovations to try first. On the other hand, we can more easily pursue innovation ideas when our world is richer, has better tech, and knows more.

I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of its ...

Why are Republicans across the nation insisting that the country’s most severe problems are teaching Black History and trans kids wanting to be recognized for who they are?

In a year of depressingly predictable election trends, the rise of biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy represents something of a breakthrough. In some polls for the Republican presidential nomination, the 38-year-old Ohio native now occupies second place behind Donald Trump, overtaking the beleaguered Ron DeSantis. [...]Read More...

Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big?

Gross output (GO) is a relatively new macroeconomic statistic that measures total economic activity. Gross domestic product (GDP)—the other major measure of economic activity—accounts only for final goods and services. However, GO’s scope includes both final output as well as intermediate inputs at all earlier stages of production. Therefore, GO is a much more comprehensive measure […]

Drivers using phones or not wearing seatbelts have been identified by the AI camera system.

Once upon a time, before the internet, there were attempts to combine magazines and catalogs together. The weird part? For a while, it worked! Meet the magalog.

Not even Taylor Swift can fight the devaluation of recorded music, but she makes it up in physical experiences; Disney isn’t much different, but it looks much worse given the company’s …

Disney was, and should remain, a serious engineering company.