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Why China Is Still Stuck in a Zero-Covid Nightmare

Protesters are calling for China to ease restrictions most nations have already ...

Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the...

Sparrow could shift the balance between humans and machines in the company’s war...

What AI-Generated Art Really Means for Human Creativity

Artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans. Soon, these en...

Pager's App Gives Screenshots Superpowers. That’s Just ...

A new startup called Pager lets users make shareable, link-enabled screenshots. ...

Pop-Up Farming Pods to Help Colonizers Grow Crops on Mars

Interstellar Lab’s inflatable BioPod is designed to help plants survive inhospit...

Apple Tracks You More Than You Think

Plus: WikiLeaks’ website is falling apart, tax websites are sending your data to...

A Peek Inside the FBI's Unprecedented January 6 Geofenc...

Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as ...

This Copyright Lawsuit Could Shape the Future of Genera...

Algorithms that create art, text, and code are spreading fast—but legal challeng...

The Mystery of Alaska’s Disappearing Whales

Belugas pass cultural knowledge across generations. Their survival may depend on...

The Enigma of Dragonfly 44, the Galaxy That’s Almost In...

A growing catalog of huge but dim “ultra-diffuse” galaxies is forcing astronomer...

The Hunt for the Kingpin Behind AlphaBay, Part 6: Endgame

With AlphaBay shuttered, Operation Bayonet enters its final phase: driving the s...

Drop What You're Doing and Update iOS, Android, and Win...

Plus: Major patches dropped this month for Chrome, Firefox, VMware, Cisco, Citri...

The Era of One-Shot, Multimillion-Dollar Genetic Cures ...

Gene therapies promise long-term relief from intractable diseases—if insurers ag...

This Singer Deepfaked Her Own Voice—and Thinks You Shou...

Self-described “computer musician” Holly Herndon explains why AI vocal clones ca...

San Francisco's Killer Police Robots Threaten the City'...

Law enforcement says that in some scenarios a lethal robot is the only way to pr...

Please Stop Freaking Out About This Giant Yellow Spider

Invasive species experts urge scientists and the media to avoid sensationalizing...