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One of the most notorious pill mill doctors of the opioid epidemic

A cloud-based platform will enable fleet management of human-sized warehouse robots.

Hand-counting ballots is expensive, tedious, time-consuming, inaccurate, and insecure. Some communities want it all.

The gen AI revolution will disrupt America’s biggest labor market, but its impact may not be what you expect.

The SS United States, once a luxurious ocean liner, holds the speed record for crossing the Atlantic. It's rusting away at a pier in Philadelphia and could soon be evicted and scrapped.

To survey the future, we polled global strategists and foresight practitioners on our most burning questions about the biggest drivers of change over the next decade. Check out their forecasts on everything from the likelihood of war over Taiwan to the future of AI.

As China struggles and the EU stagnates, the US continues to thrive – even despite its dreadful leaders.

An enduring union-community alliance in the Twin Cities may be a model for progressive victories.

On the fourth anniversary of the pandemic, a look at how America pulled apart as the rest of the world pulled together

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of landmarks in pop culture, especially sci-fi and fantasy. So many franchises were born in 1984. Some came to define the genre or invent new genres. The great podcast Imaginary Worlds noticed this and produced a three-part series about 1984’s Cambrian explosion of creativity that  landed

I am so obsessed with trying to figure out who Deadspin’s new owners are that it led me to some late night spam-blog sleuthing.

Plaintiffs presented substantial evidence showing that anyone paying attention would have noticed something was quite amiss in Coffee County.

Hint: It involves boning.

Happy Friday! What’s good? I’m back to running, although at a lower volume than usual, trying to slowly work my way back up to my normal mileage (without going back to wearing a watch, thank you very much). As it stands, I’m experiencing more cardiovascular struggle than

Harvard experts examine the promise and potential pitfalls as AI takes a bigger decision-making role in more industries.

You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about social justice causes they care about, or personal announcements. Even someone like actress and musician Maya Hawke mostly posts previews of upcoming […]

At the heart of OpenHouse lies its Catalog, a RESTful table service that offers secure and scalable table provisioning alongside declarative metadata management.

Meet the messengers from the past who saw the future and explain our world today. First up: Marshall McLuhan.

Call me a pedant, but I'm not a fan of the word "crypto". It may have been a serviceable category back in 2011 when there was only one type ...

Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."