Your desk is made up of individual, distinct atoms, but from far away its surface appears smooth. This simple idea is at the core of all our models of the physical world. We can describe what’s happening overall without getting bogged down in the complicated interactions between every atom... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The #1ReasonToBe panel has had a strong legacy at the Game Developers Conference. This year, it featured seven women from different parts of the world. They talked about why they’re game developers and how that came to... Read more

Google Google Doodle marked the 1984 discovery of the Turkana Human, the most complete early human skeleton ever found, on Sunday. The animated doodle shows dozens of bone fragments assembling into a skull, next to a full skeleton. The Turkana Human has also been known as Turkana Boy. According... Read more

This can also vary from game to game. Just look at the painstakingly crafted sound design of Overwatch, where every footstep and vocal cue conveys crucial information to the player. Or how Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice uses binaural audio recording techniques to reproduce the effects of psychosis, with the voices... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Over the years, movies and gaming have developed a symbiotic relationship that permits their combined appeal to become greater than the sum of their parts. Franchises such as Star Wars, The Walking Dead, and The Lord of... Read more

Even only a few years ago, seeing an electric commuter bike would have been a rare occurrence, but these days there are a lot of great options out there if you’re hoping to decrease your carbon footprint while whizzing around your city or neighborhood. Plus, with the start of... Read more

Our homes are our sanctuaries—a fact that became clear to a lot of people this past year when they suddenly had to spend all their time there. But your indoor air might be dirtier than you think, and that could be making it uncomfortable at home, and potentially even... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Ninety-seven percent of cloud-native security practitioners are broadly unaware of essential container security principles, according to a report from Aqua Security. Just 3% of respondents correctly noted that a container is not a security boundary. This finding,... Read more

A rewards credit card is a great way to get value from your card every time you shop. With the right rewards credit card, whenever you use your card to make a purchase, you get rewarded — whether it’s in the form of cash back, points, gift cards, a welcome bonus, or... Read more

Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), notes that there is a lot of research on mindfulness, which is why a lot of the apps are mindfulness-based. This includes Headspace and Calm—which are some of the most well known—and even UCLA Mindful, guided... Read more