Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.
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NASA / Hinode / XRT Are Eclipse Goggles a Scam?
They’re essential for anyone who wants a direct view of the solar action—but knockoffs are dangerous, NASA warns.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer or Not?
Senator John McCain’s glioblastoma diagnosis revives a longstanding debate over the safety of wireless technology.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters Trump’s Wile E. Coyote Approach to Border Security
Smuggling experts say the president needs to listen to the people who understand the complexities of security and drug policy.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Awful Decline of the New York City Subway System
The aging infrastructure was already terrible. Overcrowding made things much, much worse.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters But His Emails!
The latest White House scandal brings the nation’s attention back to the inbox.
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University of Washington The Technology That Will Make It Impossible for You to Believe What You See
With these techniques, it’s difficult to discern between videos of real people and computerized impostors that can be programmed to say anything.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump’s ‘Impenetrable Cybersecurity’ Is Pure Fantasy
Guarding networked systems is an endless process, and an imperfect one.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters The Link Between SIDS and Serotonin
A new study hints at the possibility of a forensic test for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and inches closer to the possibility of preventative screening.
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@realdonaldtrump / Twitter Donald Trump Is Testing Twitter’s Harassment Policy
The president’s latest outbursts suggest the social-media platform imposes no editorial standards. But should it?
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Z. Levy / NASA / ESA / STScI Solving the Mystery of Whose Laughter Is On the Golden Record
Forty years ago, the sound of a human cackle was blasted out into the cosmos—but who is the person laughing? And why did the track disappear from official recordings?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Good Health Never Lasts
The Republican health-care plan is especially bad for the elderly—which means it’s especially bad for everyone.
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Gleb Garanich / Reuters When Squirrels Attack
A cautionary tale
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters What Will Uber Become Without Travis Kalanick as CEO?
Investors forced the brash executive’s resignation for the good of the company—but what does that mean for its future?
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Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research What an AI's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like
Facebotlish looks pretty weird to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to
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Cecil Stoughton / Reuters / The White House ... The Normalization of Conspiracy Culture
People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
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Gus Ruelas / Reuters Why Amazon Would Want to Buy Slack
There are two big reasons that could explain the tech giant's reported interest in acquiring the workplace chat platform.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters When a Suspected Shooter’s Facebook Page Becomes a Circus
People are flocking to the profile page of a man identified as the suspect in a shooting at a Congressional baseball practice—and leaving lots of messages.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters Travis Kalanick Is Taking a Break From Uber
The embattled CEO says he’s not sure how long he’ll be on leave.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters A Fight Over Reporters' Access on Capitol Hill
Reports of curbs on access to senators in the corridors of Congress ignited alarm, and confusion.
