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A top futurist has predicted that the largest internet company of 2030 will be an online school.

After centuries of silent designs, the architects of two major 9/11 memorial sites have settled on sound.

It will have fewer flaws and longer lengths.

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Musk on Rogan’s show. Full disclosure, I only got 15 minutes in as I am off to work. Enjoy.

Living in space is helping us save the environment back on earth — here’s just one of the ways. #SpaceFacts

In his fascinating new book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears. While his previous best sellers, “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” covered the past and future respectively, his new book is all about the present. The trick for putting an end to our anxieties, he suggests, is not to stop worrying. It’s to know which things to worry about, and how much to worry about them. As he writes in his introduction: “What are today’s greatest challenges and most important changes? What should we pay attention to? What should we teach our kids?”

In “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, the historian takes on everything from terrorism to inequality.

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Google is launching a new service for scientists, journalists, and anyone else looking to track down data online. It’s called Dataset Search, and it will hopefully unify the fragmented world of open data repositories.