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Apple and Google representatives recently found themselves in front of a Senate antitrust hearing about their app store practices.…

Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caught the country off-guard by lifting most masking recommendations for…

After weeks of immense pressure, the Biden administration came out in support of waiving intellectual property rights to…

To begin her treatment, I gave Sophie two capsules of MDMA, then helped her slip on eyeshades and headphones to encourage her to…

When it came to talking about the harmful effects of social media on kids, I used to feel like the Will Smith character in I,…

The known universe seemed, briefly, muonstruck. But it took only 12 days for another Italian physicist to throw cold water on the…

People tend to make predictions while looking through their own narrow lens. The real vision lies in seeing connections. Continue…

Sometimes I’m really wrong.  In 2008 I heard about a funky new search engine called DuckDuckGo, took one glance, and predicted it…

Even if we intuitively know that virtual school isn’t the same as real school, in a culture where representations are mistaken for…

When Apple first unveiled the iPod, Steve Jobs promised to put a “thousand songs in your pocket.” Twenty years later, when Apple…