Sarah stared at two job offers lying on her kitchen table. On paper, Company A was the obvious choice: higher salary, better benefits, prestigious brand name. Yet something about Company B kept tugging at her attention—the energy during interviews, the way employees...

You're about to cross a busy intersection when something makes you pause. No conscious thought, no deliberate calculation—just an inexplicable feeling that you should wait. Seconds later, a speeding car runs the red light exactly where you would have been standing....

Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users. “AI Overviews” saves you clicking on links by using generative AI — the same technology that powers rival product ChatGPT — to...

Human history is marked by a series of paradigms—distinctive worldviews, beliefs, and frameworks—that shape societies and cultures. Transitioning from an old paradigm to a new one is a monumental journey, often involving challenges and opportunities for profound...

  Governments are meant to act as a service similar to any other. We've grown so used to living in a world that taxes us heavily and constantly changes the rules while giving us no say what the taxes are used for. Where special interest groups get their way,...

Anyone who has ever taken an economics class has heard the phrase, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Everything has a cost, even if that cost is not always immediately apparent. To achieve anything, you must give up something else. In today’s happiness-obsessed...

The gaming industry has been hit hard lately with mass layoffs shaking up some of the biggest studios. Starting in 2023 and continuing into 2024, over 18,000 jobs vanished, leaving many talented individuals without work. Among those affected were seemingly profitable...

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are the first living-room video game consoles to have all-digital versions at launch. That means no discs to fiddle with, and is a lower price tag—at first. At $400, the PS5 Digital Edition is $100 (R1,900) cheaper than the base...

When Big Content makes the paid version *worse* than the free one. 20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital...

In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a new machine-learning model named Life2vec has emerged, sparking both fascination and concern. Life2vec, drew from extensive data over a four-year period, using information on millions of residents in...

In cyber space, things change and develop faster than a quantum computer’s combinatorial analysis, making long term commitment even scarier than a bug-ridden codebase. Enter gig economy, the tech industry's perfect rebound relationship, the adaptable solution for both...

The gig economy has revolutionised the way we work, and nowhere is this more evident than in the tech industry. In a world where technology evolves at an astonishing pace, tech companies are increasingly turning to gig workers to harness the specialised skills and...

The Mandela Effect is real, but no one knows what causes it. CERN would like you to know it’s not their particle collider. Cynthia Sue Larson has been on the lookout since July 5, when CERN turned the world’s most powerful particle collider back on for a third time....

In the age of information, where data is at our fingertips and facts are just a click away, one might assume that our memories are infallible. However, the Mandela Effect serves as a fascinating reminder that human memory is far from perfect. Coined by Fiona Broome in...

When was the last time you were so deeply involved in something that made everything around you fade away? Flow, a term first coined in the ’70s by psychologist Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi (pronounced Chick-Sent-Me-High-Ee) is described by him as: “Being completely...

As Stephen Hawking said, authentic intelligence is that which can adapt to change. This is the kind of mindset we need to have in these trying times. Today, we'll share some strategies for developing it. The Flynn effect is the name for the widely-studied rise in the...

The cyber security industry is experiencing alarming rates of resignations, leaving organisations vulnerable to cyber attacks. How can we better retain cyber talent? Globally, organisations are witnessing a significant exodus of employees in what has become known as...

You’d like to believe that companies have logical, rational reasons for their decisions. Management would want what is best for the business, right? Anyone who's been in the workforce for more than five minutes knows that directives issued by managers are highly...

  Article by Jessie Sumrak Remote work is the future. Yes, employees will eventually return to offices, but the workforce will never be the same. You can applaud (or blame) the pandemic to some extent for this movement, but the remote trend was already on the up...

Time is our most valuable resource. No matter who you are, you still only get 24 hours in a day. In that sense, time is a great equalizer. It plays no favorites; everyone gets the same amount. How you choose to spend it determines what you end up doing with your life....

A senior software engineer at Google was suspended on Monday (June 13) after sharing transcripts of a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) that he claimed to be "sentient," according to media reports. The engineer, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine, was put on...

Article by The Academy of Ideas  “Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse, and a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. The shadow is very much a part of human nature, and it is only at night that no shadows exist.”...

Article by Mike Slavin “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are...

Article by Joe Kita & Antoine Verglas Despite an unremarkable mug, no man is more renowned for his power over women than Giacomo Casanova. In fact, his name has become synonymous with seduction. He was, quite simply, irresistible. And the 200-odd years that have...

Article by Ava Dickson Blocked List As the new year approaches the inevitable pressure of reinventing yourself follows. No, not follows, stalks. “New Year New Me” sounds more like a free pass to ignore your problems, fears, downfalls, beef, and subsequently...

Article by Jonathan Jones Physical contact seems to be declining in modern life. But what happens when we lack human touch? Earlier this year, Tiffany Field, head of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, traveled to...