The Present

The typical car is parked 95% of the time.

How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.

ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.

The danger posed by conversational AI isn’t that it can say weird or dark things; it’s personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.

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?

A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.

They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.

Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.

Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.

While cities drive national economic growth, their political geography means they cannot effectively deal with inequality, poverty, and other socioeconomic problems.

Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits

Some effective altruists “earn to give” — they make as much money as they can and then donate most of it to charities.

Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.

Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.

Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.

There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.

Despite being called the “dismal science,” economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.

A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.

Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?

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.

Automation could help fix the company’s financial troubles.

A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB.

2023 will see an “arms race” in mixed reality hardware and software. This truly will revolutionize our society.

It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.

These were the stories you clicked on the most.

Shouldn’t “flight mode” be obsolete?

Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.

The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.

2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.