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Vouch Atlas is a decidely unscientific study of fear: fear of your laptop being stolen. The question is "Would you leave your laptop unattended in a coffee shop here for ...

Kevin Kelly's new essay, "The Emergent Self Loop," is about his recent ten-hour conversation with Anthropic's Claude. It's the most interesting thing I've read about AI selfhood in a while.

PEN America counted 3,743 unique titles pulled from school libraries in the latest academic year -- and nonfiction is now a front-line target. According to PEN's Facts & Fiction report,

As per California's e-bike law, anything faster than pedal-assist Class 3 bikes (which are capped at 28 mph) is legally a moped or motorcycle and requires a license, registration, insurance,

A video from the Spring 2026 Commencement ceremony at the University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication and Media perfectly encapsulates the information divides around AI. Speaker Gloria Caulfield,

Ben Palmer's fake ICE hotline is still going strong, which says a lot about the state of our strange, strange country.

On January 9, 1643, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli pointed his telescope at Venus and noticed a faint glow on the planet's unlit side. Riccioli figured it was an ...

When Carlo Rovelli's bicycle chain comes off, he calls a bike-shop mechanic, never a particle physicist -- even though particle physics technically governs every bolt on the thing. The Italian ...

Daily active users across Meta's properties slipped from 3.58 billion to 3.56 billion last quarter, the first decline the company has ever reported. Julia Angwin, writing in a New York ...

This animation by Philippa Rice uses an innovative technique I haven't seen before: paper cutouts. The video shows the technique used in different ways, and it's fun to see the ...