Technology

‘Stop Counting Votes, or We’re Going to Murder Your Children’

Election officials are under siege.

America’s Strangest Tourist Destination

Taking selfies in the cradle of the atom bomb

The Slop Candidate

Donald Trump embraces a working-class fantasy.

Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh

The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.

The Age of AI Child Abuse Is Here

For maybe the first time, the scale of the problem is coming into view.

A Calculator’s Most Important Button Has Been Removed

This is clearly a mistake.

What Does That Bark Mean?

AI hype has come to dog research.

The AI Boom Has an Expiration Date

Tech executives are setting deadlines for the arrival of superintelligence. They might regret it.

The End of Parallel Parking

It’ll be a while before self-driving cars take over. Self-parking cars are already here.

Feeld, the Polyamory Dating App, Made a Magazine. Why?

Yet another reminder of how good writing jobs are hard to come by.

What’s With All the Trumpy VCs?

The tech industry is still mostly blue. But things are definitely changing.

The Scourge of ‘Win Probability’ in Sports

Fans can do this in their head.

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

AI’s Penicillin and X-Ray Moment

The Nobel Committee officially recognizes artificial intelligence’s godfathers in the pantheon of human achievement.

Donald Trump Flirts With Race Science

The former president says that there are “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”

What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment

A multibillion-dollar success story quickly turned into a curse.

We’re Entering Uncharted Territory for Math

Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI.

It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.

The EV Culture Wars Aren’t What They Seem

On the whole, Democrats are going electric and Republicans are not. Partisanship only partly explains the difference.

Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App

Our phones are being overrun.