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