Cancel culture launched a reckoning that was long overdue — but that doesn't mean it's getting everything right. Filmmaker and actor Sarah Jones slips in and out of various characters as she shares her personal experience with cancel culture and suggests a better way to hold others — and ourselves — to account.
Marina Abramović's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is Present," she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day ... with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come -- it's tak...
'I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent.
Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts demonstrate Aurasma, a new augmented reality tool that can seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smartphone. Going beyond previous augmented reality, their "auras" can do everything from making a painting talk to overlaying live news onto a printed newspaper.
As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand. She tells a cautionary tale about the gaps, blind spots and biases we subconsciously encode into AI -- and asks us to consider what the technology we create today will mean for tomorrow. "All that we see now is a ...
The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.
Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction -- from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they're bad for us. Learn more about the mechanism of habit development and discover a simple but profound tactic that mi...
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India, Oct. 1 -- Can you imagine that it's been fifteen years since The Social Network (2010) movie was released? Fifteen! That's old enough for the film itself to have a Facebook page, and that seems ...
Social media encourages constant sharing, yet many people choose to stay mostly silent online. They may scroll occasionally, but their own profiles remain quiet. To some, this seems unusual in a culture built on updates and visibility. But those who rarely post often have thoughtful reasons for staying in the background. Their habits tend to reflect deeper personality traits rather than simple disinterest. They Value Privacy People who post less often tend to keep a...
Researchers from University of Rochester and University of Maryland published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines whether and how firms might differentiate themselves from close ...
What if you could control digital devices using just the power of thought? That's the incredible promise behind the Stentrode -- an implantable brain-computer interface that collects and wirelessly transmits information directly from the brain, without the need for open surgery. Neurotech entrepreneur Tom Oxley describes the intricacies of this ...
"Why would anyone be watching me? I'm nobody." If this is your contribution to conversations about mass surveillance, tech journalist Marta Peirano would like a word with you. Wielding cautionary tales about contemporary data collection that make the Stasi seem quaint, Peirano explains how the data that our phones and algorithms automatically co...
What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn't too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a lawsuit later, Spitz received 35,830 lines of code -- a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life.
In 2014, Erika Cheung made a discovery that would ultimately help bring down her employer, Theranos, as well as its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, who claimed to have invented technology that would transform medicine. The decision to become a whistleblower proved a hard lesson in figuring out how to do what's right in the face of both personal and p...
Hi HN,I built OXPT because I was tired of the "Linear Chat Prison" of current LLM interfaces. Whenever I try to implement complex logic like Self-Reflection or Tree-of-Thought, I lose track of which branch worked best.It’s a visual playground where you can:Branch your thoughts: See multiple AI responses side-by-side on a non-linear canvas.Version control for prompts: Save and compare every iteration instead of scrolling through endless chat history.Modular Logic: Treat prompts like bui
https://youtu.be/6OZxm7ZEVU0I spent a while building N.E.O. (Native Executable Orchestrator) – an AI-powered tool that turns natural language prompts into compiled, live, running .NET desktop applications. Think of it like ChatGPT Canvas or Claude Artifacts, but for native Windows apps. Not mockups or web previews — actual (optionally sandboxed) binaries.My core philosophy for this was frictionless setup. The tool requires absolutely no SDKs. All it needs is the standard .NET runt
Remote work has reshaped the global workforce. Over the past decade, companies have shifted from office-first models to flexible environments. As a result, mill ...
People increasingly pause before responding to unfamiliar messages. ReverseLookup reveals how context-first behavior is reshaping the way we engage with calls, texts, and notifications.
February 27, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - StoryPop UGC Agency has announced an overview of its user-generated content (UGC) ...