For many people, the rise of artificial intelligence–generated images has sparked anxiety—about misinformation, deepfakes and the blurring line between what's real and what's not. But in the world of ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something else entirely. But his discarded vision may yet hold the key to why the ...

A collection of frames from videos generated with Veo 3.1 (Google) Google has released a new update to its Veo AI video generation model that should make it do a better job of sticking to prompts and ...

A lot of research has been dedicated to understanding what makes people believe in conspiracies—and how they might be able to climb out of the rabbit hole again. Conspiracies do happen. The Watergate ...

On a recent panel of progressive activists analyzing what went wrong in the 2024 election, the author, activist, and failed political candidate Qasim Rashid spoke with confidence about the way forward ...

Remember back when DOGE was a thing and Elon Musk was rolling through government agencies making cuts and floating the idea of a stimulus check for Americans based off the savings? That was just a ...

KENWOOD, Calif.—Steve Ledson and his wife were recently greeting 400 members of their wine club at their namesake winery’s French Normandy castle, nestled in a Merlot vineyard near here. As the ...

German investigators have carried out raids in relation to Northern Data AG, the Frankfurt-listed technology firm backed by stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings Ltd. that has been moving away from crypto ...

Two of Russia’s heavy-hitting analytical institutions have recently admitted in a 46-page report titled “Russia’s Living Idea-Dream” that Russia has no ideology and thus no identity. More alarmingly, ...

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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

Erika Kirk vowed in a September 12 speech to continue her husband’s movement and said that “the cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.” It was Erika Kirk's first public ...