Opinion

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How humanity transformed its fate
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.
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Apps
My anxious generation: The unforeseen toll of a digital childhood
In this op-ed, columnist Rikki Schlott draws from personal experience to argue that a digital childhood is a childhood squandered.
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Computer Science
Microsoft’s “parallel bets” strategy won the PC Wars. Will it work for AI?
Microsoft made parallel bets to make sure they held their OS lead. They’ll do the same for AI — will it work?
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Big Tech
The Supreme Court will soon decide the future of social media
Damon Root
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Computer Science
Pager panic: When beepers were infiltrating schools
Louis Anslow
AI
Why ChatGPT feels more “intelligent” than Google Search
Philip L
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Aging
Last century, we extended our lives. This century, we need to shorten our deaths.
Ross Pomeroy
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Geology
Helium discovery is the supply breakthrough science, medicine, and industry needed
Tony Morley
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Clean Energy
Retired coal plants can aid the energy transition — by going nuclear
Zion Lights
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AI
OpenAI’s text-to-video AI, Sora, is futurism come to life
Robert Chapman-Smith
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AR
Why Apple won’t call the Vision Pro “virtual reality”
Louis Rosenberg
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AI
When the Mac was a “munition”
Louis Anslow
Michio Kaku makes 3 predictions about the future
Scotty Hendricks