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Joseph Stiglitz settled into a booth at his favorite diner on the Upper West Side last week with a curious, almost satisfied smile on his face. He won a Nobel Prize nearly two decades ago for identifying the inequities and imperfections in market economies and has spent a career warning …

Introduction From automated to autonomous and now cognitive, a paradigm shift is taking place in the design principles of machines, matter, methods and more. So, what are the principles of cognitive design? And are they centered around the future of humanity? From tabulating systems to programmable systems and now with …

What smells like a “nightclub toilet,” evokes the feeling of “an underworld” and resembles a “working museum”? That would be the New York City subway, according to international readers who have experienced it. The subway runs around the clock and carries millions daily across a sprawling network. But when we …

Introducing GaN transistors reduces emissions, waste and cost.Shutterstock How do we reduce CO2 emissions quickly without throttling the global economy? Discussions about climate change inevitably return to this question. For a genuinely satisfying answer, I offer this conversation with Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER ADVERTISEMENT GaN …

The Voyager 2 spacecraft is now in interstellar space, NASA announced on Monday, making it the second human-made machine to cross a boundary that divides our solar system from the rest of the Milky Way galaxy. “We’ve been waiting with bated breath for the last couple of months for us …