A Summer Camp Covid-19 Outbreak Offers Back-to-School Lessons
Much more settled is that most kids who contract Covid-19 don’t get that sick. Data from the CDC report about symptoms among... Read More
Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets
On a Friday morning in the fall of 2016, the Mirai botnet wrecked havoc on internet infrastructure, causing major website outages across... Read More
An American Pickle Might Have Been Fresher in the 2010s
This April, the actress Julie Nolke uploaded a video called “Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self” to YouTube. The premise: A... Read More
Frog Eats Beetle. Beetle Crawls Through Guts to Escape
The nice thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food—just gulp, and down the hatch. The... Read More
Archaeologists Have Found the Source of Stonehenge’s Boulders
The huge slabs of stone that make up the most iconic structures at Stonehenge came from about 25km away, according to chemical... Read More
The Rank Hypocrisy of a TikTok Ban
On Friday, the President of the United States declared that he intends to ban a vibrant source of American speech. And that... Read More
Rite Aid Used Facial Recognition in Stores for Nearly a Decade
Just over two weeks after an unprecedented hack led to the compromise of the Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack... Read More
Technology Does Not Eliminate Cruelty
Science fiction author Arkady Martine holds a PhD in Byzantine history, which she puts to good use in her first novel A... Read More
What’s This? A Bipartisan Plan for AI and National Security
US representatives Will Hurd and Robin Kelly are from opposite sides of the ever-widening aisle, but they share a concern that the... Read More
Watch Live: Congress’ Big Tech CEO Hearing
Above all, the hearing represents the investigators’ best chance to present their case to the American public. With four CEOs who preside... Read More