Blockchain could make smart devices far more secure, but sluggish data sharing has held it back. Researchers found that messy network connections cause massive slowdowns by flooding systems with ...

Over the weekend, everyone blamed an algorithm change at X for ruining Crypto Twitter (CT). Following an apparent bot takeover, crypto posts went haywire and influencers dived into a thread with X ...

At the end of 2025, a year when the Trump administration relentlessly jackhammered an architecture of environmental protection and climate action that took decades to build, it was tempting to hope ...

Welcome to the Friday Five! Every week during the NFL regular season, I’ll drop five Patriots-related thoughts on Friday to recap the week that was in Foxboro and look ahead to kickoff. Ready, set, ...

Lance Anoa’i is exploring a drastically different career path following his departure from WWE earlier this year. The member of the legendary Anoa’i wrestling dynasty was released from his contract in ...

Like many people, I use AI for quick, practical tasks. But two recent interactions made me pay closer attention to how easily these systems slip into emotional validation. In both cases, the model ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Instagram is pulling back the curtain a bit on why you see what you see in Reels—and letting people tweak it. On Wednesday, Instagram launched “Your Algorithm” in the U.S., a new Reels product that ...

US President Donald Trump raised potential antitrust concerns around Netflix Inc.’s planned $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., noting that the market share of the combined entity ...

President Donald Trump suggested the American sport of football should have a different name so that soccer, which is called football in nearly every other country, can assume the name. Trump made his ...