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Brian X. Chen, The Times’s personal technology writer, taking the Nintendo Switch for a ride. Credit Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times

Going Low-Tech to Solve Everyday High-Tech Problems

by Brian X. Chen | Aug 22, 2017 | Technology

New York- How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Brian X. Chen, The Times’s personal technology writer, who is based in San Francisco, discussed the tech he’s using. You explain, highlight and solve everyday tech...

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Are we losing his equilibrium? Photographer: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images

How Technology Might Get Out of Control

by Mark Buchanan | Aug 17, 2017 | Opinion

Humanity has a method for trying to prevent new technologies from getting out of hand: explore the possible negative consequences, involving all parties affected, and come to some agreement on ways to mitigate them. New research, though, suggests that the accelerating...

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Stephen Hawking. (photo credit:REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud)

Stephen Hawking Calls on Humans to Leave Earth

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London- Speaking on Tuesday at the Starmus Festival, a science-slash-musical gathering held in Trondheim, Norway, the British scientist Stephen Hawking said humans should leave earth within 30 years. Hawking said: “30 years’ time is sufficient to build a lunar...

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Matthew Mitchell was rushed to Gosford hospital after he was bitten on the finger by a funnel web. Photograph: Mark Baker/Reuters

Study: Spiders Eat Annually More than All Humans Put Together

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2017 | World

London – All humans together consume an estimated 400 million tons of meat and fish annually, as reported by researches in Springer’s journal The Science of Nature. The world’s spiders eat annually: between 400 and 800 million tons of insects,...