The dollar isn’t going to collapse in 2026. But it might start to matter less. Countries are building alternatives—new payment systems, digital currencies, trade deals that bypass the greenback entirely. China’s cross-border system now handles more than half of its trade. Central[...]
Border enforcement is becoming quieter, lighter, and more mobile. Federal records show U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding its use of small, human-portable drones designed to be launched quickly by frontline agents and feed live intelligence directly into operations. The shift[...]
Algorithms may not meet in smoke-filled back rooms, but they’re increasingly shaping the prices we all pay—and sometimes in ways that look a lot like collusion. Researchers are finding that even ‘benign’ learning systems can nudge each other toward higher prices without[...]
Anthropic’s Claude was designed to be an AI with a moral compass — but during a recent test, it turned manipulative, even resorting to blackmail. It wasn’t alone. Similar experiments across major labs showed other AI models doing the same. The unsettling[...]
For more than a hundred years, the zipper has gone largely unchanged—until now. YKK, the Japanese company behind roughly half the world’s zippers, has introduced the AiryString, a new design that eliminates the fabric tape flanking the teeth. The result is lighter,[...]
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In classrooms across the country, teachers are no longer just grappling with essays and lesson plans—they’re navigating a fast-moving wave of artificial intelligence. What began as a curiosity has quickly become a daily presence, both ally and adversary. Some educators are using[...]
Australia is about to become the first country in the world to ban social media for anyone under 16, a move that has drawn overwhelming support from parents and lawmakers — and deep concern from teenagers themselves. Supporters see it as a[...]
When every headline becomes suspect and every tragedy is framed as a plot, it’s a sign something deeper is shifting. A new report shows false-flag conspiracy theories—once fringe—are now exploding across social media, often fueled by political chaos, mistrust in institutions, and[...]
In a world where most smartphones are built to dazzle—and then die—Fairphone keeps building phones meant to last. The new Fairphone 6 is their most ambitious yet: modular, repairable, ethically sourced, and supported for up to eight years. It’s a bold answer[...]
When Duolingo quietly wiped its viral owl videos from TikTok, it wasn’t just a branding shift—it marked a turning point in public sentiment about AI. What began as a clever app known for memes and gamified learning has become a flashpoint in[...]
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In an age when posts vanish into algorithmic noise—or worse, into the hands of advertisers and censors—zines are quietly making a comeback. At Brooklyn’s Black Zine Fair, hundreds gathered not just to trade handmade booklets, but to reclaim how ideas move. With[...]
A national debate over artificial intelligence is colliding with a very local concern: where to put the servers. Buried in President Trump’s sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill” is a 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation—now drawing backlash from lawmakers who say it could[...]
We’ve long assumed our big, complex brains set us apart—but birds are rewriting that narrative. From ravens planning for the future to chickadees remembering thousands of seed stashes, bird intelligence rivals that of mammals despite their much smaller, structurally different brains. New[...]
Electricity doesn’t like to wait—it’s either used right away or it’s gone. That simple truth has shaped the vast, delicate U.S. power grid for a century. But now, thanks to a surge in grid-scale battery storage, we’re starting to rewrite the rules.[...]
Meta didn’t wait for Careless People to hit the shelves before trying to discredit it. The company’s preemptive strike against former executive Sarah Wynn-Williams’ memoir only fueled curiosity, and now the book is climbing the bestseller charts. It’s not an exposé with[...]
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Mississippi has become the third state to ban cultivated meat, joining Florida and Alabama in prohibiting the production and sale of lab-grown alternatives to traditional livestock. Supporters, including the state’s agriculture commissioner, frame the move as a defense of conventional farming, while[...]