Photo-Illustration: Sean McCabe/Photos: Shutterstock, Getty Images, Alamy This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On the last Thursday of May, Tanya Simon’s staff packed up her office. They filled boxes with personal items accumulated over more than 25 years at 60 Minutes: Emmys,

Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has

A Reporter at Large Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S. August 17, 2026 As a boy, Luwi Ikabala moved with Carleton Gajdusek to the U.S. “I

“Many secrets; no mysteries.” That’s the master code of the Trump administration. When it does something strange, there’s never any mystery as to why: Somebody close to the president, or possibly the president and his family themselves, intends to score a dishonest dollar. Exactly who and how may be secret.

Jason Arday, the school’s youngest Black professor, was found dead on Friday. The school ignored a series of warnings about his life story and his work. Listen · 15:20 min Cambridge University in May. Jason Arday was hired in 2023, becoming the university’s youngest Black professor. Published Aug. 15, 2026Updated

Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has

OpinionM. Gessen Credit...Anne Vetter for The New York Times OpinionM. Gessen Credit...Anne Vetter for The New York Times Listen · 35:14 min Aug. 13, 2026 On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver’s license. She was one

Ahora que Rosalía se ha pasado a la mística y el “filósofo del 15-M” Ernesto Castro se ha convertido al cristianismo, no es de extrañar que también la ciencia se deje seducir por Dios. Científicos de todo el mundo se animan a investigar temas como el cielo, la reencarnación o

By some metrics, Buddhist monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is the happiest man on Earth. In brain scans, researchers noted that Mingyur’s neural activity showed off-the-charts levels of activation in the left prefrontal cortex, an area associated with positive emotions such as happiness, enthusiasm and joy. In other tests conducted when

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Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired

Books “Life of M,” the novelist’s latest book, continues a career-long attempt to dismantle character in fiction. Has she succeeded? August 16, 2026 Freedom is something that Cusk’s characters—particularly her female characters—long for and lack.Photo illustration by Jack Smyth; Source photographs from Getty The protagonist of Rachel Cusk’s new novel,

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Updated at 11:25 a.m. ET on August 18, 2026 Yesterday in London, Jason Arday, the controversy-plagued British academic and author, was found dead. Made famous as the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s more

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited AI leaders to a meeting in New Delhi earlier this year, security protocols allowed each executive to bring one additional person with them. Most brought colleagues, but Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei brought his wife, Cami Clark. Clark doesn’t work at Anthropic, but she

During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?” – or, as another

Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion. Listen · 9:03 min Members of Taiwan’s military operating a drone during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Changhua, Taiwan, on Thursday.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times Aug. 9, 2026 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版

Men are lonely, you’ve probably heard. “Few men will admit it, but it’s true of most of them,” declared Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero in one in a tsunami of recent takes on the “male loneliness epidemic.” Guerrero partially blamed the “virtual world” and its “pornography and ideological provocation.”

Standing before The Spirit of Detroit, a landmark bronze statue in the city’s downtown, in the early hours of a Wednesday morning, Abdul El-Sayed channelled boxing great Muhammad Ali. “We shook up the world,” he declared. The 41-year-old former public health official had just delivered a knockout blow to the

When I first downloaded the McDonald’s app years ago, I signed up for its loyalty program hoping to get better deals. Why not get some cheap french fries? While I understood that this would entail some type of data tracking, I didn’t grasp how the information would be used to

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. Half a dozen years ago, Anthony Fauci was as popular as he would ever be. A respected physician and researcher for decades, he became in 2020 the public face of the pandemic response—calm, confident,