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The trap of having to strip away guardrails isn’t an accident of competition; it’s being maintained by the government through incentives.
Advanced deep learning models have made facial recognition systems more accurate and reliable.
AI does not know what you have been through or what risk trade-offs you are willing to accept.
Fresh inflation data now suggests the challenge may be deeper and longer-lasting than many expected.
Society sends increasingly contradictory messages about what aging is supposed to look like.
Recent tragedies show AI’s potential role in violent events.
Buttons and zippers aren’t just practical. They also follow design traditions that became connected to gender over hundreds of years.
Trump is moving from his Liberation Day tariffs to what I call ‘revenge tariffs’ in an attempt to show the high court that it cannot stop him.
Counterintuitively, Warsh’s background in finance could help keep the Central Bank free from Trump’s influence.
Adidas is supplying a new ball for the matches, which it has done for every tournament since 1970.
A fungal disease decimating bat colonies is driving up crop losses, shrinking rural tax bases, and raising borrowing costs for county governments.
AI policing tools are used in dozens of U.S. cities, and several injustices have already occurred.
Whenever Americans are hungry for answers, platforms such as these can more easily masquerade as objective data analysis tools.
Fight the FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete). Automated work still requires human judgement.
There are simple steps you can take to reduce the impact of stress on your nervous system.
When it comes to Mythos, don’t hate the player. Hate the game.
Chip manufacturing behaves less like a competitive commodity market and more like a layered oligopoly.
Without binding regulations, mining for critical minerals will worsen the lives of some of the world’s poorest people.
As U.S. power in the world has slowly declined amid the rise of China and an increasingly multipolar world, the country has lost some of its ability...
Tech companies have made ads part of nearly every large free web service, video channel, and social media platform. But the latest AI models could...
People usually don’t suspect AI use unless it’s obvious.
As the federal government accelerates the use of and investment in AI-driven spy tech, it’s mandating less oversight around AI technology.
Resilience is not forged in the denial of vulnerability, but in its acceptance.
What to do—and what not to do.
They also risk undoing the legacies of presidential wives, influential designers, and the egalitarian ideals that many of these buildings embody.
Current rules governing AI do not specifically address its use in biology.
If you purchased an eye drop product since April 2025, you may want to check if it’s recalled.
What explains the success of Erewhon’s $22 smoothie?
Founders who display narcissistic admiration are more likely to secure an investment.
These camera systems have created a mass location tracking infrastructure knitted together by artificial intelligence.
The idea for a new canal to move oil from the Middle East had emerged in the mid-1950s.
The role of the critic isn’t to summarize or repackage art, but to actively participate in a conversation about it.
The idea for a new canal to move oil from the Middle East had emerged in the 1950s, in the context of another Middle East conflict, the Suez crisis.
The story of NASA’s effort to return humans to the moon is long and winding.
Small aerial robots designed to navigate in the dark like bats are very useful for search and rescue.
The Iran war is not a distant geopolitical shock for U.S. households.
From warehouse workers to lawyers, people in a recent study described a surprisingly similar pressure to perform despite their pain.
Strategic reserves are a system of national oil stocks intended to replace at least 90 days of each country’s imports.
AI is being introduced to K-12 classrooms faster than evidence and understanding can support.
Generative AI is accelerating the types of cultural convergence and uniform expression that were already happening.
AI can be used to replace thinking, or it can be used to support it.
‘I’m convinced that the industry will weather this radical disruption,’ a USC cinematic arts professor says.
Success, or failure, in war usually depends not on machines but the people who use them.
The U.S. economy is much less oil-intensive than it used to be, producing more economic value with far less oil use today than in the past.
These noninvasive tools absorb chemicals from the surrounding environment over time, showing how people encounter harmful substances in everyday...
Workers who are single, such as recent graduates widowers, now represent much more of the labor pool than they did a generation ago.
Even though it’s just one hour lost, the amount of sleep deprivation due to disrupted sleep rhythm lasts for many days. Here are some quick tips to...
While Summers’ behavior and the reported dynamics between him and a woman he mentored may appear shocking, they are all too common in economics.
Technological progress occurs when different forms of expertise are combined.
Meekness once meant not becoming weak, but subjugating power to reason—not letting anger take control.