Spritz, a Boston-based startup that’s been developing a speed-reading technology in stealth since 2011, is in the process of closing a $3.54 million seed funding round. Investors include Denis O’Brien ...

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In the despair-inducing young adult novel Flowers for Algernon, a man named Charlie with a low IQ receives an experimental treatment that makes him temporarily way smarter than he normally is. Then he ...

Are you a fast reader? A new website application aims to put your speed to the test. Stationery supplier Staples has created a timed test which gives you a page to read, followed by a few questions.

Web site ZAP Reader hosts a speed-reading program designed to help you quickly read any text you choose. It works like this: you copy and paste text you'd like to get through quickly (ZAP Reader's ...

Republicans in the House have already drawn up more than 400 amendments to try to stymie a massive climate change and energy bill currently under consideration, but it seems as if the Democrats may ...