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Today, every issue is a climate issue. It's no longer just higher temperatures, wildfires, and rising sea levels, but issues we previously thought had…

The urgency of the climate crisis is indisputable. But the response has been a series of half measures and delayed actions that don’t add up to anywhere near…

Neal Stephenson has no trouble getting the science right in his speculative sci-fi best-sellers, which dwell on how people might respond to new technologies…

Jen Easterly has her work cut out for her. As only the second director of the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), she…

Yesterday the New York Times dropped a bombshell report about patents around Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. After a four-year partnership with the National…

Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the decision maker is not…

When we think of artificial intelligence, many of us jump to visions of the future from science fiction—hellscapes like The Matrix, Black Mirror, and The…

You might feel more optimistic about the future today than you did last year. But that's not exactly a high bar to clear: The slog of the past 18 months has…

Our world is facing some of the most critical challenges of all time. While the past decade ushered in dramatic technological acceleration, the last 18…