The tactics police are using to prevent bystander video
Kian Kelley-Chung was wearing a black T-shirt with the logo of his documentary and art…
Podcast: AI finds its voice
Today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking machines we’ve been…
The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere
Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off…
The J&J vaccine is back. Next comes trust.
Last week US regulators recommended resuming use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, after deciding…
How megacities could lead the fight against climate change
In 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in cities than do today. As the…
What cities need now
Urban technology projects have long sought to manage the city—to organize its ambiguities, mitigate its…
Fiction: Unpaired
They drilled a hole in my skull on the 43rd floor of an empty skyscraper…
Politics and the pandemic have changed how we imagine cities
Science fiction is full of cities imagined from the ground up, but an author who…
How technology helped archaeologists dig deeper
Construction workers in New York’s Lower Manhattan neighborhood were breaking ground for a new federal…
Slum dwellers in India get unique digital addresses
Fourteen-year-old Neha Dashrath was ecstatic when the pizza arrived. It was the first time she’d…