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24 photos of the world's most awesome street art
Whether or not you call it vandalism, places like New York, SĂŁo Paulo, and Berlin are
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Smart, successful people are unhappy because they have the wrong mindset
"People judge the best professors by the number of awards they get, or the salary that they get, or…
Harvard is launching a center for studying happiness
To that end, the center has stated that one of its first goals is to find a way of assessing psycho…
Prince had the trait that turned Steve Jobs and Kanye West into legends
The incorrigible Kanye West is another example. He can make sunshiney, haloed neo-soul like on his …
One quote sums up why Prince was the greatest pop innovator ever
Without lapsing too far into tech lore cliche, it's fair to say that in this regard, Prince's direc…
Someday soon, software will learn your habits and be able to look out for you
Machine learning is a radical departure from traditional computing because it relies on algorithms …
This robot startup is trying to win the $5 trillion race to automate corporate jobs
WorkFusion's algorithms look over the shoulder of workers, gathering data on what they do, and sele…
Billionaire Napster founder Sean Parker is hacking cancer with a $250 million institute
Others hacks at the Insitute include sharing research tools between organizations and conducting cl…
Google and Microsoft are making gigantic artificial brains
"One of these artificial neurons is to a real neuron a little bit like an airplane is to a bird. At…
'Machine learning' is a revolution as big as the internet or personal computers
Machine learning had a major public breakthrough in March, when Google made artificial intelligence…
The biggest hipster hotspots in the US, according to a major real estate company
In honor of April Fools' Day, the real estate service Trulia analyzed the most hipstery spots in ma…
Dating apps aren't actually making us more superficial
In fact, online dating may be enabling committed relationships in a more rapid way than would other…
What Microsoft's teen chatbot being 'tricked' into racism says about the Internet
As Woolley has argued in an essay, one of the best checks against having a bot spiral out of contro…
One stat shows how artificial intelligence is exploding into the world
These fields would be interested in deep learning because the technique doesn't require engineers t…
Inside the video game roots of Slack, everyone's favorite workplace messaging app
The origin story of Slackbot goes like this: When Slack launched, there were no direct messages or …
A lot of people who make over $350,000 are about to get replaced by software
Type in "Syrian Civil War" into Kensho and you'll get a number of data sets showing how m…
This club for 'luxury second homeowners' is like Airbnb for the ultra-rich - take a look inside
"3rd Home is a private club for luxury second homeowners," explains 3rd Home chief marketing office…
A top computer scientist told us the games that artificial intelligence can't win
A team of Littman's students helped make Proverb, a crossword playing AI, that played better than t…
7 multi-billion dollar mega projects that are remaking the world's greatest cities
In many cases, they're relying on mega projects, ranging from $4 to $40 billion dollars in cost, th…
Adidas creative director: How to take over America, with the help of Kanye
"I think it made a lot of people, inside and outside the company, uncomfortable when they first saw…
THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world
But the reason it still needs subsidies, and it can't go above a certain percentage, is this interm…
Amsterdam's 'night mayor' is turning his city into a 24-hour adventure
First founded in 2014, the nonprofit has helped make some major successes happen, like with clarify…
Taylor Swift owes her 2016 Grammy to this reclusive Swedish producer
The reason you might not have heard of Martin (given name Karl Martin Sandberg) is probably because…
Big, beautiful photos from Kanye West's huge YEEZY premier
On Thursday, February 11, Kanye West premiered his latest fashion collection with adidas Originals,…
Reviled pharma bro Martin Shkreli wants to 'buy' Kanye West's new album for $10 million
"I believe you (and your partners) will find this financial arrangement more attractive than your c…