AI and remote work made distance easier and human contact scarcer. Here's what $73.7 billion in corporate retreat spending, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CEO and founder Leila Hormozi says being a good person is the quality that makes job candidates more appealing to hire. AI is ...

As digital abundance grows, the physical experiences that technology cannot easily replicate will become more valuable.

Loneliness and social isolation are now recognized as major public health threats, prompting governments to explore technological solutions. Research from Monash University argues new AI "digital ...

In an age of driver-less cars, self-checkouts, and AI everything, can a smile compete with an algorithm? Can empathy compete ...

Ann Skeet is the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) will bring sea changes to a number of ...

In the 2013 film Her, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, introverted writer living in Los Angeles. Reeling from an impending divorce from his childhood sweetheart, he purchases an ...

We are, at our core, creatures of connection. Long before we built cities, our survival depended on the bonds we formed—with family, with friends, with community. Relationships begin in small sparks: ...

As interactions shift to screens, and AI redraws the relationship between people and machines, the very nature of how humans connect—and what we connect with—is undergoing a transformation. That ...

Humans are hard-wired for connection. A recent study by a team at Harvard suggests that our brains may process loneliness and isolation in much the same way as basic longings for food and water. The ...

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