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Activists in San Francisco’s Mission District weren’t giving up easily. David Campos had taken the baton from Chris Daly as…

The polar bear video has millions of views. Set to a haunting piano score that’s become ubiquitous on TikTok, it…

Adam Strauss is standing in his New York City apartment, holding the limp cord of his headphones, trying to choose…

The role of advanced analytics in sports is a contentious subject. To its defenders, data-driven pragmatism is a natural evolutionary…

Imagine a tech company so visionary that it can take an idea public. A “concept IPO,” they called it.Picture the…

The modern era of cheating in chess began on a Thursday in July 1993, when a man with shoulder-length dreadlocks…

To roll out its new mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro, Apple devised a plan almost as intricate as the device…

Know thyself. It’s an old adage that has new resonance in the digital age. Today, you can buy smart devices…

Nearly a year later, on a hot day in the high summer of 2025, I stepped into NGA’s headquarters at…

The invention that turned Apple into a world-beating, billion-selling, society-changing colossus was not a laptop or a music player; it…

At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But…