Your friend says to you: "I bet you $100 that in 2016 a Democrat will be elected as president of the USA." Would you take such a wager? Why or why not? You might think gambling is wrong. You might ...

A 1989 demo imagined what houses of the future might look like. Some predictions were closer than you’d think.

Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

Joshua Schmude wants you to do something unusual: record yourself speaking, play it backwards, and listen carefully. What you hear, he argues, might reveal something your conscious mind never intended ...

With a new year just underway, many of us are still thinking about how to make sure 2026 is the best year ever. This usually requires us to change things, some small and maybe some large. But whatever ...

Instead of predicting the future, Apple was forward-thinking from the outset and took the first steps toward global computing for everybody, co-founder Steve Wozniak has said as part of a series of ...

Recently, my security team prevented a data breach—not by catching someone stealing data, but by predicting they would attempt it days before they actually tried. It wasn’t luck. We had something more ...