the middle of its worst drought in 40 years. In the parched north of the country, rivers are running dry and millions of livestock have perished due to lack of food. Around 4.4 million Kenyans don't h...
[photo1]The scene is one so many of us are familiar with: Kids running around a birthday party or family holiday event, "hopped up on sugar," wild with excitement, sticky with joy, fueled by corn syru...
In February 2022, Redwood Materials began a pilot program in California to recycle electric vehicle batteries. The startup partnered with the state government as well as Ford, Volvo, Volkswagen, and T...
[photo1]Yashraj SharmaIn the crowded bus climbing slowly toward the village of Salal, high in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir, a young man is squashed among the other passengers, clasping to his ch...
As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy, aiming to address developer -- and user -- criticism.Starting today, OpenAI says that it ...
A proposed state law in Texas would force Internet service providers to block websites containing information on how to obtain an abortion or abortion pill. Republican lawmaker Steve Toth, a member of...
[photo1]Vince BeiserIn October of last year, an enormous new creature appeared on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean, about 1,400 miles southwest of San Diego. It was a remote-controlled, 90-ton machine ...
[photo1]Parth M.N.On the afternoon of February 14, Junaid Khan, 32, and his nephew Nasir Khan, 25, left their small village of Ghatmeeka in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan to attend a family f...
[photo1]Paresh DaveIn the weeks before Apple Store employees in Oklahoma City voted on whether to unionize last October, managers walked a couple of them at a time to a ghostly empty storefront at the...
When you name your company Boston Dynamics, certain geographical constraints are inserted into the operation. While the Spot-maker is, by many accounts, a global brand, it's one that remains deeply ti...
[photo1]Lauren GoodeOleksandr Kosovan remembers vividly the morning he left his home to go to work and didn't know if it would still be there when he returned. He was jolted awake at 4 am by the sound...
When Cindy first tried the Artemisia Anti-Hemorrhage Formula dietary supplements that she purchased on Amazon, she had no reason to suspect that she was eating donkey. A California native and lifelong...
It looks like trusting developers to just tell the truth about data collection on Google Play isn't working out. Just like on iOS, Android launched app privacy "nutrition labels" in the Play Store las...
Britta Eder's list of phone contacts is full of people the German state considers to be criminals. As a defense lawyer in Hamburg, her client list includes anti-fascists, people who campaign against n...
[photo1]Steven LevyEarlier this week The New York Times published a story about Wu Zhe, a Chinese scientist who is the alleged mastermind of his nation's balloon surveillance program. You may have not...
[photo1]Joel Khalili"It's kind of a last-man-standing situation," says Fred Thiel, CEO of US-based Marathon Digital Holdings. His crypto-mining company, among the largest in the world, has found itsel...
[photo1]Khari JohnsonIn the weeks following the release of OpenAI's viral chatbot ChatGPT late last year, Google AI chief Jeff Dean expressed concern that deploying a conversational search engine too ...
After two years of seeking regulatory approval, Wefunder has officially received the green light to operate its investment crowdfunding services within the European Union. This marks Wefunder's first ...
Instacart is introducing two new features that are designed to give shoppers on its platform more opportunities to earn. The company is launching "queued batches," which gives shoppers the option to a...