The event takes place starting at 12PM PT / 3PM ET at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas on Wednesday, January 7th. Nilay will be taking the stage with Min at 12:30PM to talk AI, the state of gaming, and ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed ...

This is an excellent tool! I find myself flicking between the UTF-8 and hexadecimal output types when decoding base64 blobs. It would be great if there was a combined way to show printable and ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

Many people around the world, especially those with neurodegenerative diseases, have lost the ability to communicate effectively. A developing technique—leveraging a brain-computer interface (BCI) and ...

A participant is using the inner speech neuroprosthesis. The text above is the cued sentence, and the text below is what's being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence. Scientists ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Take this quiz to test how fluent you are in the lingo of today’s tech industry. Credit... Supported by By Mike Isaac Photographs by Ian C. Bates Mike Isaac has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...

Why aliens might take an interest in livestock, how pharmaceuticals get such wacky names, and more listener questions. For questions about subscriptions or your Slate ...