The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired us to rise up against racial injustice more than 60 years ago, helping spark a civil rights movement that is still in motion today. Highlighting that the movement is an ongoing process — and not a moment relegated to history — is... Read more

If you weren’t already convinced by the epic snowstorm, fatal heat dome, horrific flooding, apocalyptic fires, and terrifying IPCC report of 2021, let’s make one thing clear: Climate change is here, now, today. Even if we all became carbon zero overnight—an impossibility—the climate would still keep changing. And while... Read more

Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. Applying data science to predict unrest. AI that can anticipate the next variant of COVID-19’s structure. Reducing carbon emissions from planes using algorithms. That’s a few of the... Read more

Starfield. Bethesda Last year wasn’t terrible for games, thanks to highlights like Psychonauts 2, Forbidden City and Deathloop, but it wasn’t the year it was meant to be. Games in the middle of development when the pandemic hit were disrupted, leading many to be delayed into 2022. But what... Read more

We try to test electric scooters for two to three months, oftentimes even longer. Not all of them are winners. That’s what you’ll find below—e-scooters we generally like but not as much as our picks above. They all have one thing (or more) holding them back from getting a... Read more

Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. At the 2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Intel demonstrated for the first time a functional MESO (Magneto-Electric Spin-Orbit) transistor. MESO is what’s called a “beyond-CMOS” device.... Read more

Amazon On a cold winter day, there’s nothing better than curling up with a good book. So how about a few hundred good books? Amazon’s Kindle is the biggest e-reader on the market, and right now, you can pick one up for just $70. At $40 off from the... Read more

For weeks, the cybersecurity world has braced for destructive hacking that might accompany or presage a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now, the first wave of those attacks appear to have arrived. While so far on a small scale, the campaign uses techniques that hint at a rerun of Russia’s... Read more

Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. One of the biggest trends that emerged at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was the mass exodus of employees out of the office. In 2020, 42% of... Read more