Society

Kristen Radtke's Seek You looks at isolation as a problem — and investigates where it comes from, how it shapes us, and why we should battle against it.

The Month When Evil Elves Get Very Busy

America unintentionally built a health care system that is hard to fix.

Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?

Tailored messaging, repeated exposure, and false grassroots campaigns are classic propaganda techniques, now used widely by state-back trolls.

At Foundation for Economic Education, Preston Brashers — commenting on a statement by Bernie Sanders that this country can’t afford a billionaire class which is at war with working families — replied (“What the Socialist Left Fails to Grasp about Wealth and Innovation in America,” June 28):  But when you consider the vital economic activities...

SB1047’s veto, OpenAI’s turnover, and a constant treadmill pushing AI startups to be all too similar to big technology name brands.

OpenAI, a non-profit AI company that will lose anywhere from $4 billion to $5 billion this year, will at some point in the next six or so months convert into a for-profit AI company, at which point it will continue to lose money in exactly the same way. Shortly after

I was on the treadmill when all of the TVs at Planet Fitness switched to coverage of Iran's strike on Israel. I'd never seen them do that kind of thing before. Even the ones that usually show commercials for Planet Fitness while you're at Planet Fitness. Almost all of them

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?

Many homeowners in North Carolina won’t be insured against flooding or landslides due to the fragmented way in which disasters are covered.

Mayor Harrell has proposed redirecting more than half the 2025 Jumpstart revenue to balance the city budget. But how has it been spent in the past?

Elon Musk threw an xAI recruiting party in OpenAI’s original San Francisco headquarters.

Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.

Unix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones'

Virtru is a global data encryption and digital privacy provider founded in 2012. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

In August I wrote that I was looking for work . I shared my blog post on a variety of social media, without doing any reminders or reposts. ...

It’s not cars that are more sophisticated.

A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American life. Or in national politics

A landmark international study shows 1,437 fails and 63 successes, and why

Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.

Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse?

The inflation spike of 2021 and 2022 has presented real policy challenges. In order to better understand this policy debate, it is imperative to look at prices and how they are being affected. The price of just about everything in the U.S. economy can be broken down into the three main components of cost. These…

The money and methods behind the massive and well-funded movement

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

Kansas Historical Society

Ever wonder how much money there is in the world? The answer is complicated, which you might expect -- but it has nothing to do with tallying up all the numbers. Rather, it’s more about what parameters are used.