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Excitement around AI has driven huge stock market gains over the past few years, but there’s growing worry that the good times may not last. Some investors worry we could be nearing an AI crash similar to the dot com bubble burst in 2000. So, how worried do individual investors n ...  Show more

Misinformation and online scams are incredibly common, especially among older adults in the US. And with the rise of AI and dependence on online tools for so many aspects of life, they are becoming increasingly difficult to identify. So, how can we keep our parents and grandparen ...  Show more

"Memories are the architects of our identity," says technologist Pau Aleikum Garcia, but they're not permanent. Photos can be lost amid political unrest or natural disaster, while illnesses like Alzhemier's can rob people of their past. He puts forward a novel solution — "synthet ...  Show more

It sounds like a quandry straight out of science fiction -- given the opportunity, would you erase your own painful or traumatic memories? Join Ben and Matt as they separate science fiction from science fact (along with the fuzzy border in between), delving into the murky mechani ...  Show more

What if AI could bring the past to life? Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil shares how she helped train an AI chatbot on her late grandfather’s archives, allowing her to connect with a family member she never met — and discover family history she never knew. Backed by her own original drawi ...  Show more

Time capsules preserve artefacts and memories so that people in the future can learn about a particular time in the past. Now scientists at the University of Southampton in the U.K. have come up with an innovative memento: a “memory crystal” that fits in your hand and contains th ...  Show more