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A new Meta published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, current a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night.

New York Magazine dropped Ross Barkan after finding problems with attribution in 67 of his columns.

A high-profile plagiarism row has led to one of the biggest academic scandals in the UK's history. It centers on Professor Jason Arday, the new poster boy in an ongoing culture war centered around "wo...

Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening is no longer a mainstream activity in most of the world. 

A big reason why Trump II is so much worse than the first time is that the world’s richest man bought Twitter and turned it into a fascist cesspit.

Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Iranian government.

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It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day.

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Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency couched this program in language about rooting out people they describe as “violent opportunists.”

A $20 meal became a right-wing media feud, exposing a party's broken promises

On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver’s license.

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USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half
of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030.

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Dozens of workers are suing Meta over claims it used AI to identify workers for mass layoffs, with those taking disability or maternity leave disproportionately targeted.

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

At the start of what is becoming an intense wildfire season this year, federal officials warned of a 15 percent decrease in available “hotshot” teams, the elite squads that fight complex blazes in the most rugged areas.

I’m still shaking off the travel fatigue from the excesses of 2016. Don’t get me wrong, last month’s two conventions (the GOH gig at VancouFur and the Roastermaster spot at Albaco…

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of AI promises to empower everyone. But it mistakes personal optimization for a shared society, writes Petter Bae Brandtzaeg.

ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell knows what he's doing: this movie is silly, scary, and over-the-top all at once.

There are a few stars who have been all over our movie screens in 2026 but just one seems to be dominating our computer screens, too: Robert Pattinson.

Now 68, the horror icon has not only made cameos in the three most recent films—2013’s Evil Dead, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, and Evil Dead Burn—but he’s also been on board as a producer or executive producer on them, as well as the upcoming Evil Dead Wrath.