Journalist Ira Glass, who hosts the NPR show “This American Life,” is not a computer scientist. He doesn’t work at...
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The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of Jan. 3, 2026, signaled a profound shift...
When your winter jacket slows heat escaping your body or the cardboard sleeve on your coffee keeps heat from reaching...
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out...
The Iranian regime’s internet shutdown, initiated on Jan. 8, 2026, has severely diminished the flow of information out of the...
Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Since the end of December, 2025, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has responded to many users’ requests to undress real...
Meta’s decision to end its professional fact-checking program sparked a wave of criticism in the tech and media world. Critics...
A young woman starts to become suspicious of her cellphone. She notices it listing Wi-Fi networks she does not recognize,...
There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope,...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
