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What Makes a Genius? The World's Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common
By Walter Isaacson
How This Woman Is Fighting for Gender Equality in Tech
By Alex Fitzpatrick
Meet the Startup Founder Who Wants to Use the Tech Behind Bitcoin to Revolutionize Wall Street
By Lisa Eadicicco
The Fight to Use Food Stamps Online
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Meet Tech Startups’ Political Mastermind
Bradley Tusk helps companies like Uber and FanDuel in their confrontations with lawmakers
By Alex Fitzpatrick
July 21, 2016
Meet the Mastermind Behind Pokémon Go
"It's been this adrenaline fueled thing for the past week"
By Matt Peckham
July 13, 2016
'Soft Robots' Look Nothing Like the Machines You Know
They look more like sea creatures
By TIME Staff
July 7, 2016
This Board Game Designer Isn't Sorry About Taking a Big Risk
What it's like to make games for a living
By Alex Fitzpatrick
June 30, 2016
See What the Smartest Americans Were Doing At Age 25
From Sylvia Plath to Neil deGrasse Tyson
By TIME Staff
June 23, 2016
Why This Tech Company Is Giving 100 People Free Money
Startup accelerator Y Combinator is testing a Universal Basic Income, in which people get money to spend on whatever they please
By Jacob Davidson
June 16, 2016
'The Witness' Creator Jonathan Blow on Science, Language and Reality
The outspoken designer on some of the game's interpretations, his issues with the industry, and what he hopes to tackle in the future
By Matt Peckham
June 9, 2016
A New Push for City Commuters on Two Wheels
Electric bicycles are a staple of commuting around the world, and the U.S. could be next
By Lisa Eadicicco
June 2, 2016
Are You a Genius?
Geniuses come in all forms, from aerospace engineers and artificial intelligence experts to creative storytellers and environmental advocates. Might you be a genius, too? TIME asked the wise guys (and girls) at Mensa, the world's...
May 19, 2016
NASA's Ambitious Plan to Help Build The Next Concorde
NASA and Lockheed Martin are working on a design that could fix the Concorde's biggest problem: It was just too loud
By Alex Fitzpatrick
May 12, 2016
What 7 of the World's Smartest People Think About Artificial Intelligence
Will it help us evolve, or kill us all?
By Matt Peckham
May 5, 2016
The 100 Most Genius Places in America
See the most innovative places around the country
By David Johnson and Chris Wilson
April 28, 2016
Meet the Google Executive Trying to Take On the World's Biggest Environmental Problems
Google's Rebecca Moore talks about how emerging technologies can be used to fix the environment
By Lisa Eadicicco
April 15, 2016
Inside the Genius of Radiolab and Why It's So Addictive
The show's creator, Jad Abumrad, on how he finds and composes the stories you can't stop listening to
By Cubie King and Matt Vella
April 4, 2016
Will Robots in the Workplace Destroy Our Future?
Grappling with the right role for automatons at work
By Alex Fitzpatrick
March 31, 2016
A Kids' Toy That Teaches Coding
Kickstarter's latest craze is Cubetto, a $195 robot and game system designed to spark young kids' interest in coding. Here's how it works. 1 A series of colored blocks indicate directions for Cubetto to turn...
By Julie Shapiro
March 17, 2016
Why Poverty Is Sexist
One of the most outspoken advocates I know for women and girls is actually a man. As co-founder of the ONE Campaign, my friend Bono spends a lot of time speaking out against global poverty....
By Melinda French Gates
March 17, 2016
The Geography of Genius
"If it takes a village to raise a child ... it takes a city to raise a genius." That's the case Eric Weiner makes in his latest book, which explores how history's greatest thinkers were...
By Sarah Begley
March 17, 2016
Encounters with the Arch-Genius, David Gelernter
The artificial intelligence pioneer has some radical ideas about the supremacy of the human mind
By Cubie King and David Von Drehle / Woodbridge, Conn.
February 25, 2016
Genius and Insanity: Do You Need to Be Crazy to Be the Best?
Research says experts practice for 10,000 hours. That’s a lot of hours. A crazy amount of hours, one might say. I’ve posted a lot about “deliberate practice” and the work habits of geniuses. They’re relentless....
By Eric Barker
July 22, 2015
How to Be a Genius: 5 Secrets From Experts
Want to know how to be a genius? There are five things you can learn from looking at those who are the very best. 1) Be Curious And Driven For his book Creativity, noted...
By Eric Barker
July 2, 2015
Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 16
1. A simple plan pairing a low-income first-time mom with a nurse for advice through pregnancy and her child’s early years can give that family stability and even a better life. By Nancy Cook in...
By The Aspen Institute
January 16, 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch on Playing the Role of the Genius
The actor talks about the challenges of his various roles while on the set of TIME's cover shoot
By Diane Tsai
November 20, 2014
The Price of Genius
Alan Turing, the man who pioneered computing, also forced the world to question what it means to be human
By Walter Isaacson
November 20, 2014
Strokes of Genius: Here’s How the Most Creative People Get Their Ideas
Where do strokes of genius come from?
By Eric Barker
June 27, 2014
Geniuses in Love: Mensa and Match.com Partner For a New Dating Site
Mensa, the society for people with high IQ, and Match.com are teaming up to create a new dating site for highly intelligent people, reports Match.com. According to Match, smart is attractive: More than 80% of...
By Hannah Goldberg
June 26, 2014
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