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The third grade was an exciting time for me. I remember the dedicated class time learning how to cursive write and when my homework was to fill up an entire page with the same letters over and over. I
Science Fiction vs. Science Fact Whether you're looking to scale skyscrapers like Spider-Man or wish you could have Wolverine's amazing powers of self-healing, researchers are devising ways to bring extraordinary abilities to the average mortal, and some of these amazing technologies
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A.I. is developing at an incredible rate, and Elon Musk wants people to realize just how fast computer intelligence is catching up with our own. During a Q&A period of the ISS R&D conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Musk emphasized
You may think your home has run out of space for such an area, but it’s possible your basement is an untapped resource. Whether it’s already furnished or waiting to be redone, you can certainly rework it into a great
Guest Speaker: Nir Eyal "Who’s Really Addicting You to Technology?" “Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet,” wrote Tony Schwartz in a recent essay in The New York Times. It’s a common complaint these days. A steady
Guest Speaker: Neil Patel "10 Tips That Will Help Launch Your Startup Faster" The startup culture is full of people who want to, and try to, but just can’t get their business off the ground. Why is this the case? Much of
Guest Speaker: Bryce Roberts "You Don’t Need a Master Plan — You Just Need to Start" Startups are overdosing on ambition these days Everything has to be a billion dollar idea that changes the world or it isn’t worth doing. These days, even a billion doesn’t seem
Guest Speaker: Bryan Kramer "How Technology Affects Human Relationships" If you’re anything like me, you reach for your smartphone as soon as you wake up to check email and respond to texts. The rest of the day, you’re constantly on a tablet,