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Half of U.S. states passed laws to keep kids off social media. Kids route around them in minutes. But YOUR government ID?

Use AI as your doctor’s appointment copilot The average doctor’s appointment is 18 minutes. You waited weeks or months for it. You drove there, parked, sat in the waiting room with a 2022 copy of ...

You’ve seen the trend. Everyone’s asking AI to turn them into a cartoon character, a video game avatar, a Pixar version of themselves. Cute. Fun. I get it. But I kept thinking: What if you asked AI ...

Seven years of photos. Her son’s first steps. His first day of kindergarten. Gone. Here’s the difference between sync and ...

I asked the chatbot about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. What it said back will shock you.

Here’s what teachers want parents to know.

Israel hacked Tehran’s own street cameras and fed years of footage into AI to map every move Khamenei made. By the time the strike launched, the targeting data was real-time. I break down exactly how ...

A machine cannot own a patent, a copyright, or a single brushstroke for the art it creates, according to a recent decision.

Millions of grieving people are turning to AI to hear their loved ones’ voices again. The technology is real, the comfort is real and the questions it raises will stay with you all day.

Open/download audio After years of mid-flight audio disturbances, United takes a hard line: Refuse to use headphones, and you could be kicked off your flight or arrested.

Open/download audio If I were working at Google or Microsoft right now, marketing Chromebooks and Surface laptops, I’d be sweating.