Collective data rights can stop big tech from obliterating privacy
Every person engaged with the networked world constantly creates rivers of data. We do this…
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has flown to the edge of space
On May 22, Virgin Galactic took two people to the very edge of suborbital space…
The Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers had a secret weapon: self-promoting cybersecurity firms
On January 11, antivirus company Bitdefender said it was “happy to announce” a startling breakthrough.…
This animated chart shows how the world’s vaccine rollout is going
More than 1.5 billion covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in over 180 countries. That…
The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI
On May 18, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced an impressive new tool: an AI system…
Could the ransomware crisis force action against Russia?
What touches the American psyche more deeply than a gas shortage? If the Colonial Pipeline…
We could see federal regulation on face recognition as early as next week
On May 10, 40 advocacy groups sent an open letter demanding a permanent ban of…
Embracing the rapid pace of AI
In a recent survey, “2021 Thriving in an AI World,” KPMG found that across every…
How space weather could wreck NASA’s return to the moon
Is NASA really going to return humans to the moon in 2024? That was the increasingly…
The American West is bracing for a hot, dry and dangerous summer
Water levels are running dangerously low in rivers, reservoirs, and aquifers across much of the…