California’s plan to hit its richest residents with a one-off wealth tax is a long shot, and its design has problems. But a look at who picks up the tab when billionaires scrimp on taxes, and how ...

Sleeping on a problem might be more powerful than we ever imagined. Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have shown that dreams can actually be nudged in specific directions — and those dream ...

Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) responded Sunday to the GOP’s push for national voter ID laws, calling it a “solution in search of a problem.” “It’s a solution in search of a problem in one big way,” Ivey ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

Your code will carry the signs of the decisions you have not made. Three recurring patterns emerge across organizations: the shared "kitchen sink" utilities library, the domain "identity crisis", and ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google’s AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly ...

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at N.Y.U., has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. I remember the moment I knew my approach to student use of artificial ...

The U.S. network of EV DC Fast Charging stations has seen rapid growth in the 2020s, but they’re coming with an unexpected side effect. Although EVs are pitched as a green alternative to ICE-powered ...

When artist Jim Sanborn talks about “Kryptos,” his sculpture at the CIA headquarters, and the famously unsolved secret code engraved in its copper panels, he sounds as if he’s talking about espionage, ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain fill your slumber with dreams, it also goes right on solving the problems ...