That's been the general contention of the media, which, as a public service, have explained at some length the basics of fast-growing quantities, such as disease, to hammer home how something like a ...

Humanity’s tools for thought have not just expanded how we think; they’ve reshaped thought itself. This cognitive evolution has followed a remarkable yet predictable trajectory, marked by four ...

This year Gordon Moore’s venerable law turns 50, a milestone that carries a powerful inflection point. We’re now at the knee of digital technology’s exponential growth curve, where from now on, ...

As of April 9, more than 15,000 people had died from COVID-19 in the US. That’s a quarter of the number of people that died from the flu during the 2017-18 season. It’s a fraction of the number of gun ...

At the time of writing, the world is in the middle of a global pandemic that is causing untold miseries on hapless millions all over. Cutting across national boundaries, racial differences, wealth ...

DPGAs (digitally programmable-gain amplifiers) are handy signal-processing components whenever ADCs must acquire signals with a wide dynamic range. Without the ability to accommodate input-signal ...

There's a lot of talk right now about how to "flatten the curve" of the coronavirus pandemic. But what does that actually mean — and what will happen if we don't do it? The "curve" in question is the ...

I attended the Global Retail Marketing Association's annual leadership conference recently and had the opportunity to interact with a few terrific speakers including Ray Kurzweil-- renowned futurist ...

I recently read a couple of articles on artificial intelligence, one an interview with historian, Yuval Noah Harari, and the other written by computer science geek (like me), Tim Urban. I was ...