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For years, I sat down to work each morning, realizing hours later that I felt drained, but got little done. Instead of writing, I spent my time texting, emailing, and mostly aimlessly…

I realized that I had imagined the AI would take in my entire chart and make a diagnosis, possibly with some dramatic gradually-appearing images like the scenes on Grey’s Anatomy where they…

And finally—​sophistication: AI-​assisted hacks open the door to complex strategies beyond those that can be devised by the unaided human mind. The sophisticated statistical analyses of AIs…

There are several potential avenues for protecting influencers that would, in turn, help all of us confronting constant commercialism and misinformation in our feeds. Prioritizing fair pay…

While adaptive cruise control might seem very different from a fully autonomous vehicle—and it is, technologically—the two technologies reside on the same spectrum. And in even the most…

In the early 2010s, brands began phasing out the plastic microbeads they’d been adding to toothpaste and face scrubs to boost their scrubbing power. Some of these products contained hundreds…

Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in those infrastructures, as if they are responding with a collective…

Underlying Bedoya’s argument—​and that of James in the Jack’d case—​are the antidiscrimination principles governing modern civil rights laws. Under state and federal law, powerful entities,…

Paul Johnson’s life was like any other struggling musician’s—working multiple jobs, picking up gigs, hustling. Then his warm acoustic folk-pop tune “Firework” made it on to one of Spotify’s…

“This incredible journey we’re on together has only just begun,” former president Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio on September 17. In response, the crowd saluted him with a gesture…