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Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

A US appeals court upheld a ruling that AI legal research company Ross Intelligence's training of its AI model didn't amount to "fair use."

Although Android is essentially just another Linux distribution, most people only experience it in the form of the rather restrictive and proprietary versions found on smartphones, tablets and smar…

With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.

Making it work would require pulling a lot of (cosmic) strings—but perhaps we need wild explanations to explain wild events.

The Belgian-American Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an observatory to detect high-energy neutrinos - some of the ​universe's most elusive subatomic particles ...

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People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices

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The printing press was invented in the middle of the fifteenth century, and it's been downhill for the written word ever since. Even before then, arguments that the volume of writing being done far ou...

Algorithms and short-form video drove engagement. They also made it easier to quit.

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The writer and activist Cory Doctorow wants you to be mad about tech monopoly — but not blindly terrified of AI.

Social media use is declining, and what's left has shifted from conversation to passive scrolling.

The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.

The competition welcomed its largest ever number of entries—more than 10,000—from photographers in 112 countries.

The pioneering artist answers the Nerve Q&A about Trump’s threat to culture, how she finds inspiration – and her forthcoming first-ever show in Wales. Interview by Jude Rogers

Fed up with paying to stream music you’ll never actually own? Give the little silver disc a spin. Here’s how to start a CD collection or get more out of one you already have.

G.B. Trudeau often skewered politicians at their stupidest. But his primary subject has always been the range and variety of everyday life.

A new book takes aim at the marketing and pseudoscience behind the wellness industry

Yes. But as a new book shows, it has better uses

Earth’s quantum field and signals from other satellites may prove more reliable

Such research poses risks for humanity and the planet

Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

Teenagers barred from social media are turning obscure corners of the internet into makeshift chat rooms.

Oh, Scholastic Book Fair. If you made your way through a public school in North America anytime during the past half-century, you should recall that shiny catalog. That sudden, circus-like presence…

For a seemingly pointless exercise, these odd shapes can actually serve a practical purpose.

DeKalb County on Monday announced it issued a key permit allowing multifamily firm Aramar Investments to convert the tower into 282 market-rate apartments.

Tired of ads on Android? These five free hacks block them in apps, browsers, and YouTube, no root or subscription required.

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions...

In the opening chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson's “The Ministry for the Future,” a prolonged heat wave grips northern India.

Jürgen Habermas, the great defender of deliberative democracy, lived up to its demands: he never feared changing his mind

Over the past few centuries, inventors have tweaked the design of the receptacles here and there, but overall, not much has changed about the dependable medical supply

Wikipedia turns 25 this year. Its success was not a given and reveals much about our changing relationship with information online.

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Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A recent study suggests otherwise.

What works well in theory seems not to in practice

Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have spent decades watching old VHS tapes, searching for the outrageous and strange human stories hiding inside.