Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.I'm turning the wheel over to Rebecca Bellan next week, and s...
[photo1]Lauren GoodeIn late March, a well-funded artificial intelligence startup hosted what it said was the first ever AI film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse theater in San Francisco. The startup, ...
WhatsApp appears to have a username feature in the works that could potentially provide people on the messaging service with an additional layer of privacy.That's how it's always worked in WhatsApp, b...
[photo1]Will KnightEight years ago, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform ...
[photo1]Morgan MeakerThe excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around the University College London building ahead of his speech...
[photo1]Paresh DaveGoogle has spent the past few weeks promoting generative AI tools that can summarize search results for users, help them draft essays, and swap out overcast skies for sunshine in ot...
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.It was another busy week in the transportation world and no s...
[photo1]Andy GreenbergAsk Western cybersecurity intelligence analysts who their "favorite" group of foreign state-sponsored hackers is--the adversary they can't help but grudgingly admire and obs...
We don't spend a lot of time taking a deep-dive into the consumer experience of gaming. But one of the biggest stories in tech this week is the much-anticipated release of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ...
If AI is coming for your job, you might as well get something out of the bargain--perhaps musical skills that will aid you in your new life as a subway busker? If you've always wanted to learn to play...
On Tuesday of this week, neuroscientist, founder and author Gary Marcus sat between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Christina Montgomery, who is IBM's chief privacy trust officer, as all three testified bef...
Silence. Complete, unnerving silence. Despite decades of searches for any form of life, intelligent or otherwise, out there in the cosmos, the Universe has but one message for us: No one is answering....
By Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode[photo1]ON THIS WEEK'S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Daron Acemoglu, institute professor at MIT, about h...
This Friday, May 19, a rare "black moon" will rise in the nighttime sky, signaling the start of a new age when bloodshed and chaos will reign upon the Earth. OK, the part about "bloodshed and chaos" p...
With all the apps and digital tools available to enhance your studying, plus how fast and easy it is to type notes, it seems like a no-brainer to bring your laptop with you to class. But it actually m...
Rose EvelethThese days, so-called generative AI can (allegedly) make art, write books, and compose poetry. Systems like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and ChatGPT are seemingly quite good at it. But fo...
What would you be willing to do for a free TV? If the answer is hand over information about what you watch, search for, and listen to on that TV and for how long, how much money your household makes, ...
The ruins of the ancient necropolis of Neapolis lie some 10 meters (about 33 feet) below modern-day Naples, Italy. But the site is in a densely populated urban district, making it challenging to under...
Pulling weeds growing in your garden, yard, flower beds, or between the cracks in your driveway is tedious work--especially when they seem to grow back overnight. But rather than blaming and then evic...
Although the law banning the installation of lead pipes in the United States took effect in 1988, that still leaves many homes across the country with plumbing that may contain lead. So, how can you d...