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Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left -- and has a big opportunity ahead.
Behind the plateau in corporate AI lies a surge in personal and agentic use.
In "Raising AI," De Kai argues that today's AIs are already more like us than we think they are.
How much can you know about someone from a single belief?
Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.
"It’s only natural for us to get America back," quipped Kim Kielsen, former prime minister of Greenland, in 2019.
The nonprofit made a bold gamble on the limits of "fair use" — and federal courts have not backed their play.
It's a problem on both sides of the political divide.
Absence makes the heart (and public opinion) grow fonder.
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
Claims of a sudden infestation appear unfounded.
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
The Persian Constitutional Revolution made unlikely allies and enemies of missionaries, ayatollahs, the shah, and his Russian ambassadors. Its legacy shaped modern-day Iran.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
Scientific evidence does not support the use of trigger warnings, which are described as a "disingenuous gesture of trauma awareness."
Simple "nudges" to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.
Cyberattacks are growing in number and sophistication.
Changes in the world population are determined by two metrics: the number of babies born, and number of people dying.
Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
The restoration of public confidence is crucial for strong democratic governance around the world.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they're an easy target and are not completely controllable.
Was it the enormous magnitude of the quake, or is the problem with the buildings?
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
Guess which country has 269% inflation.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.