Ikea's House of Horrors: The stolen Russian forests being greenwashed into kids' furniture #Ikea #Russia #Россия

The company's research into a consumer mind-reading device is over, for now. Some scientists said it was never possible anyway.

Learn to overcome procrastination with 5 min videos, and go to bed happy

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Tesla's new patent describes a new way of mining for lithium, using table salt. It's a little more complex than that, but how will it work?

“Roadrunner,” by the Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, presents Bourdain as both the hero and the villain of his own story.

Chances are, if you’ve ever been on the internet, you’ve visited Wikipedia. It is the world’s fifth largest website, pulling in an estimated 6.1 billion followers per month and serves as a cheat sheet for almost any topic in the world. So great is the online…

One of the easiest ways to start a (friendly) fight in a group of mathematicians is to bring up the axiom of choice. I'll explain what it is, why it's so controversial, and hopefully shed some light on how we choose axiomatic systems and what that means…

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Email suggests famed space telescope could quickly resume scientific observations

The other day, we started getting strange reports from some customers of incident.io. Their incident identifiers — unique numbers to identify each incident — appeared to have jumped unexpectedly.

A recent addition to the list of possible resolutions to the Fermi Paradox: nobody is broadcasting because they don't want to be found!

At least 100 activists, journalists and government dissidents across 10 countries were targeted with spyware produced by an Israeli company called Candiru, according to cybersecurity researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which tracks illegal…

Making the labor market work

For Charles “Bob” Cook, a project assigned by Jack Kilby led to the development of the first integrated circuits to ever orbit the Earth – and a foundation for future space electronics.