AI is a fantastic tool for helping—helping you remember, helping you understand, helping you see things you didn't before—not a tool for doing things for you

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Christian Ivan of City 3D Timelapse created a fascinating 3D timelapse showing Rome's evolution from 1000 BCE to 2026.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

Your vehicle might be sending your personally identifiable info to data brokers and Big Tech, new report finds.

When a company takes a name from literature, it gives us a window into how the people who build the company think.

Rover is a daemon, a manifestation of your self, a separate entity that knows you and your tastes, remembers what you remember, a thing you can talk to and learn from.

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

The Associated Press survey found growing dissatisfaction with Israel's wartime leadership, even as the New York mayor remains divisive over his views on Israel

In response to a New York Times report on DraftKings, the state’s gaming commission said it would evaluate how each company deployed the technology.

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.

The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.