Taking this side of the question is Clive Thompson, author of the new book Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better. Thompson says he is “regularly astonished by the ...

Throughout recent years, anyone looking to build their own internet application has needed profound coding knowledge, specialized skills or expensive equipment. It's a frustrating issue that the ...

There are fewer than 50 million software developers around the world. The Dfinity Foundation has a plan to expand that number to 5 billion. Dfinity took a step in that direction at the end of last ...

Today, hundreds of millions of people own bitcoin and other tokens hosted on blockchains worth trillions of dollars. Increasingly, though, blockchains host far more than tokens. In fact, blockchains ...

English has become the dominant language in global academic publishing, facilitating cross-border collaboration while reinforcing structural barriers for non-native English-speaking researchers. This ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . I've been "on the Internet" since the late '90s, when my college presented us with, OMG, actual real-tech email accounts. Back then there was a ...

Whether you're writing a telegram, sonnet, or malicious comment, the style changes to fit the form. So how has the Internet--where length is unconstrained by column width but is radically clipped by ...