AI is lying to us, and nobody seems to care
Real information in, invented information mixed in, one confident answer out. The interface never shows you how it got there.We built i...
Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development
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Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels
Ancient Egyptian civilization blossomed in the scorching desert thanks to the Nile River, which delivered fresh wa...
US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands
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How AI Is Transforming Global Hiring in 2026
and why infrastructure matters more than everSince the very beginning of the internet era, hiring was constrained by two things: human ...
Is the future of software certain once AI is everywhere?
Extinction is the wrong lens. Evolution is the right one.In August 2025, enterprise software had one of its worst weeks on the market i...
All aboard Amtrak’s sleeker, cleaner new trains
On Charlie Hamilton’s regular Amtrak rides from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see
Your brain and the ocean share an unexpected feature: waves. Electrical activity can move across the brain's surface in patterns known ...
What The Matrix got right about AI
The famous choice was never about the pills, it was about whether to see the system at all. AI assisted.More Than 25 Years On, The Firs...
Why plugging in all those EVs could actually save the power grid
California has a good problem. As it scrambles to deploy more solar panels and wind turbines, it is reducing its g...