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If you go looking for the decision that gave American politics its colors, you won’t find one. You’ll find almost a quarter-century in which...
More planning is typically necessary to smoothly transition a digital estate.
By many measures, the economy is doing well, but people feel they’re falling behind.
For years to come, automated trucks with AI-based controls will still require a driver.
Premiums are expensive because healthcare is expensive—which means that consumers have to make difficult trade-offs.
These facilities generate local employment opportunities in 3 key ways beyond the staff working inside them.
The partisan gap on data centers is small—and getting smaller.
Effective national regulation of AI will not begin with any single switch or any one person’s finger.
Some researchers argue that bans on social media platforms are like putting an age restriction on buying alcohol or cigarettes.
As AI takes on more work, some human capabilities will inevitably be used less often.
How can professionals benefit from AI without outsourcing the judgment their work requires?
Since broadcasting began, American media policy has wrestled with how to support the information needs of a democracy.
Parton, the legendary American singer, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, left an estate estimated at $450 million.
The heat is not going away—but it needs to go somewhere.
Researchers found that a favorable manager relationship is tied to higher job satisfaction across work arrangements.
Many of the ads do not disclose the use of AI at all, whether it’s for hyperrealistic deepfakes or subtle enhancements.
In short, there’s a trade-off between the cost of capital and transparency.
Flock’s architecture turns local cameras into a cross-jurisdictional surveillance network accessible to agencies that never purchased the cameras.
These laws give states ways to respond to deception, but alone they can’t guarantee voters that what they’re watching is real.
Time after time, any benefits resulting from these projects were consistently overshadowed by the massive costs to the public.
An American AI Force would hand China’s leadership every reason to create its own.
Our research found less public support for policy provisions governing more complex issues related to data centers.
At stake was the Clarity Act, which would have provided light-touch regulation over cryptocurrency assets.
Yes, but not too much.
The process used to decide where employees should work matters just as much as the decision itself.
As a user, try to recognize what kind of intellectual work the AI agent did for a response you receive.
Devices in homes now generate evidence continuously and often invisibly, while the governing law remains a patchwork.
Being switched off isn’t the same as dying.
Making dynamic spectrum sharing work requires radios that are more flexible than the fixed-frequency devices of the past.
There is a long history of binary thinking about addictive goods.
Even as tariffs favor domestic producers, automation is limiting hiring gains—testing whether the president's blue-collar coalition holds through...
Digital infrastructure can be designed, built, and managed for human well-being just as other critical infrastructure is.
New AI tools used in dermatology have a crucial shortcoming.
Public interest technology can fill the gaps between abstract policy and real world solutions.
Scammers worm their way into a victim’s heart to gain access to their money through false pretenses.
Stress resilience is affected by several cyclical processes, from individual and cellular-level mechanisms to the seasons.
The study doesn’t focus just on job loss; it also examines job gains and promotions.
The difficult question is how far each form of accountability can go without compromising the independence the Fed needs to make monetary policy.
7 states have passed extended producer responsibility while over a dozen additional states are considering EPR policies.
The algorithms supplying your feeds may be designed to prioritize content that clashes with your values.
If elite athletes use supplements, does that mean everyone who exercises should use use them?
The real test is whether the ocean can become AI’s next computing frontier without becoming its next environmental problem.
The story of functional neurological disorder is beginning to turn a corner.
One of the biggest hidden costs is that it makes employees fear for their jobs.
A labor economist explains the surge behind the 3 types of disposable workers.
This is the technology behind the human-like voices in computers, smartphones, and apps.
Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of Santa Maria confirmed a 240-million-year-old species, after rediscovering a missing fossil fragment.
Starfall could deliver critical medical products, deploy emergency disaster relief, or supply urgent defense support within a few hours.
For more than 50 years, citizen suits have been an effective part of cleaning up the environment in the U.S.
Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices.