A Ukrainian drone developer recently announced that AI-controlled drones had killed Russian soldiers without human oversight—a new, and not entirely positive, milestone in modern warfare. It is no ...

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

Smart homes are designed to make daily life easier through automation, but many people assume they stop working completely without Wi-Fi or internet access. In reality, smart homes without internet ...

More honestly: can America, and much of the Western world, function without the economic, political, and psychological advantages created by white supremacy? For more than 400 years, the United States ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Herald-Dispatch newsroom was not involved in its creation. Millions of computer users face the same problem: they receive a Microsoft Word document but don ...

It started with a cryptic email containing the word “confidential” in the subject line. The Albuquerque, N.M., nonprofit used the 2020 gift to create new scholarship programs and expand advising ...

The annual meetings of the Chicago Loop Alliance are no place for truth-telling about the self-evident problems of the Chicago Loop. As Friday’s big gathering at Willis Tower made clear, this is a ...

For the first time, speech has been decoupled from consequence. We now live alongside AI systems that converse knowledgeably and persuasively—deploying claims about the world, explanations, advice, ...

Generative artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. We’re using it at work to guide our coding, writing and researching. We’re conjuring AI videos and songs. We’re enhancing old family ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal kingdom—function permanently without it. This may be relevant in future ...