After 8 Years in Space, ‘BepiColombo’ Is Finally Approaching Mercury

Here is the story of BepiColombo, told in six parts. BepiColombo has been on a bit of an odyssey—and that’s not just a convenient metaphor for a long journey. The…

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Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream

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Here is the story of a small, strange plush toy that has somehow become a tiny ambassador for one of…

The Leftist Split Over AI Doom

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It was a warm September evening in New York, and the digital air was already thick with talk of doom.…

Submit Your Questions: Why Is Silicon Valley Still a Boy’s Club?

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By 2026, the phrase “the future is female” had come to feel less like a rallying cry and more like…

He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature

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Imagine a world where medicine isn’t discovered, but designed. Where we don’t have to wait for nature to accidentally hand…

Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers

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Few names from the early internet carry the emotional charge of Napster. To a generation of music lovers, it was…

Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like

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There is something quietly comforting about sorting existential dread into categories. When the conversation turns to artificial intelligence and the…

The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

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Let me paint the scene: a cavernous conference center in San Francisco, thousands of people wearing lanyards and clutching coffee…

The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess

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It’s a strange time to be alive, and if you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you might feel…

Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers

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When the drones came out of the night sky over the Persian Gulf, most people were asleep. They were not…