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You judge the person playing Candy Crush. Even when it’s you. But that mental fist pump from leveling up has real value. How to stop judging and use games for a strategic reset.

With game designer an…

The Replika app chats with you, learns from you, and reflects you back. It starts to become you. And your AI self gets pretty real.

Journalist Mike Murphy used the app to create his mini-me, and wrot…

And other fibs we tell our friends, family and lovers. Psychotherapist Esther Perel is back to call us on our bullsh*t.

This is the second of our two-parter on how our phones create such intimacy and…

Remember being dumped? Now, technology lets us delay, deflect, and disappear. Renowned pyschotherapist Esther Perel is here to help us fall in love better.

Esther is the bestselling author of Mating …

Silicon Valley is still a man's world. And Ellen Ullman, who started programming in 1978, thinks it's high time for the rest of us to infiltrate.

Ellen's new book, Life in Code, is full of great and …

José Cruz is a college student, research scientist, and phone power-user. He spent 6 hours in one day on his screen. So he wanted to cut back, make more time for research, reading, and mental drift. …

We deleted, we unplugged, we took walks. We made choices. We made time. Two years later, we catch up with some of the original Bored and Brilliant participants - some of the 20,000 people who joined …

This week, five episodes for five ways we can do better by the planet. First: warm up, strip down. Rethink the air conditioner.

With David Biello, science curator for TED. 

Giant whale turds. A permanent shade over the sun. One is flashier, but that's the danger of it. This is poopier oceans vs. the climate quick fix.

The last episode in our five-part series, with TED s…

We’ve made our plants bigger, juicier, and sturdier. Now can we make them better at sucking CO2? And should we?

The last episode in our five-part series, with TED science curator David Biello.

First, stick a giant vacuum cleaner onto a smokestack. Inhale the exhaust. Then what?

The last episode in our five-part series, with TED science curator David Biello.

We were going to have to talk about it eventually. No, not Elon Musk (although yes, he does come up). Mars. Planet B.

The last episode in our five-part series, with TED science curator David Biello.

We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, we stress out our IT department with our searches and talk to author Nick Bilton about t…

A third of kids are online before they’re even born, thanks to sonogram images posted to Facebook. Is there a downside to all the kid photos we share?

This week, we revisit a conversation with Hillar…

Yeah, it’s been a while for us too. So let’s reset. It’s the Bored and Brilliant bootcamp: three quick challenges to make space for brilliance in our accelerating world.

Maybe you’ve heard this episo…

Address books, maps, keys. Your Walkman, your datebook. All wiped out by your phone. Along with eye contact and boredom. This week, as the iPhone turns 10, we assess our most enduring love affair: th…

Netflix’s Black Mirror is a tweaked reflection of technology’s worst consequences - what show creator Charlie Brooker calls a “sarcastic version of the present.’ This week, Brooker and executive prod…