In every age of human history, technology has reshaped the way people live, work, and understand themselves. The printing press democratised knowledge, the steam engine transformed economies, and the ...

A central question to TikTok's potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm — the secret sauce that powers its addictive video feed — after it's ...

This gives his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. It is not clear how many times Trump can keep extending the ban as the government ...

Machines are not just instruments in service of science — they are science. Consider the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment. Its detection of gravitational waves in ...

A new computing era arrives with the breakthrough in how computers can sort information. This vital function, at the heart of everything from searches on the internet to artificial intelligence, has ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...