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Tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back to the US, but there are ways to make it happen — if America is serious about doing so.

ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli imitations invite questions about the creative value of people and what we really mean when we talk about creativity.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

In this op-ed, columnist Rikki Schlott draws from personal experience to argue that a digital childhood is a childhood squandered.

Rikki Schlott

Microsoft made parallel bets to make sure they held their OS lead. They'll do the same for AI — will it work?

Matthew Ball

Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech is permitted? Should the government?

Cities and schools once actually arrested students for carrying this dangerous technology.

Louis Anslow

There will be a moment, coming soon, when AI makes the leap from tool to entity.

Philip L | AI Explained

We are living longer lives, while also spending more years sick than ever before — but there are ways to close the lifespan-healthspan gap

Ross Pomeroy

A helium reservoir in Minnesota has astonishingly high concentrations of the gas, potentially opening doors for commercial extraction.

Tony Morley

Nuclear power is a proven way to decarbonize the grid, and a lot of infrastructure for it already exists at retired coal plants.

Zion Lights

Sora will let anyone transform their ideas directly into video and the implications are breathtaking.

Robert Chapman-Smith

Apple has forbidden developers from using "VR," "AR," or "MR" to describe their Vision Pro apps. That’s a mistake.

Louis Rosenberg

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