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AI tools, such as generative text-to-video tools and chatbots that generate endless ad ideas, could make it even more challenging to differentiate between jokes, facts, and deepfakes.

“A reanimated world is a world in which spirit and matter are not just equally valued but known to be mutually reliant.”

Engineering education.

Surfers have dreamt it—now engineers are delivering.

A portrait of the NASA program’s last days.

Realistic digital spaces need delusions as much as they need detail.

Will recording every spoken word help or hurt us?

Survival on a fictional desert planet has a lesson for the drought-stricken state.

“Add little to little and there will be a big pile.” —Ovid When we build complex technologies, despite our best efforts and our desire for clean logic, they often end up being far messier than we intend. They often end up kluges: inelegant solutions that work just well enough. And a reason they end up being […]

If you ask Anthony Weiner, digital records—especially those on the Internet—can seem impossibly hard to get rid of. When a picture or document is reduced to a series of 1s and 0s, it becomes transmissible, reproducible, downloadable, and storable. You can’t burn digital books, and ideas like cloud computing make it possible to back up […]