Blue Origin takes its first passengers to space
This time, there was a blastoff. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three other civilians…
Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself
The Facebook engineer was itching to know why his date hadn’t responded to his messages.…
Disability rights advocates are worried about discrimination in AI hiring tools
Your ability to land your next job could depend on how well you play one…
MIT Technology Review names Mat Honan its new Editor in Chief
MIT Technology Review announced today that veteran tech editor Mat Honan has been hired as its new editor in chief. Honan joins from BuzzFeed News, where he…
What the latest Pegasus spyware leaks tell us
Over the weekend, a consortium of international news outlets published their findings from an investigation…
Why NASA should visit Pluto again
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, a 25-year-old amateur astronomer, spied a small, dim object in the night…
Cities are scrambling to prevent flooding
US cities are working to shore up their flood defenses in the face of climate…
Why England’s sudden lifting of covid restrictions is a massive gamble
England is about to take a huge gamble. On Monday, July 19, the country is…
Work, reinvented: Tech will drive the office evolution
In an early May blog post, Google chief executive officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai shared the…
Is 57 a prime number? There’s a game for that.
The Greek mathematician Euclid may very well have proved, circa 300 BCE, that there are…