Tied to the global consulting giant is a massive investment fund. Based on its reaction to this story, McKinsey likely doesn’t want you reading much about it.

It’s been two weeks since we introduced Libra, a new cryptocurrency powered by blockchain technology. We shared a white paper, a number of deep-dive pap

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The ‘Vegebot’, developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, was initially trained to recognise and harvest iceberg lettuce in a lab setting. It has now been successfully tested in a variety of

Special forces members engaged in extrajudicial killings and then altered crime scenes to make it look as if the victims had been resisting arrest, United Nations investigators said.

Here are all the businesses, brands and subsidiaries (we know of) owned by “The Everything Store.”

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The number of people detained, their phones and laptops searched without warrants, is exploding. Why?

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Imagine someone trying to convince you that English is too slow:

Children can learn quickly by sounding out words, letter by letter—but somehow, the method is still controversial.

Through their work on the brains of ants, a team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen has identified fundamental DNA networks which, with all likelihood, control brain activity. The discovery was recently published in the scientific journal Nature…

Brief bouts of aerobic exercise may activate synaptic changes in the hippocampus that prime the brain for learning, according to a new study in mice.

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