Technology

There Is No Antimemetics Division explores how to survive when memories and meaning are malleable

A small, aging fleet repairs the fiber-optic cables that carry data around the globe, and conflict zones can slow that work to a crawl

Anthropic has been consulting theologians and ethicists on Claude’s behavior, raising questions about who gets to shape a chatbot’s values

The trend of attorneys getting caught citing AI-hallucinated cases points to a broader problem: instead of checking AI’s work, people keep trusting it

Smart-panel start-up Span wants to turn spare household electricity into AI computing power. How far it can scale and what effect that would have on the residential grid remain unsettled

How an experiment involving a made-up skin condition exposes the risks of increasingly popular AI medical advice

Commercial satellites can now watch much of Earth in near-real time. Militaries are learning new ways to fool them

This company says its pulsed plasma machine will deliver electricity to the grid by 2029. Some physicists warn that its promises are outrunning what the technology has proved

Sharla Boehm, a math teacher, spent her summers coding. She’d go on to build what would eventually evolve into the Internet

Varda’s plan to develop medicines in microgravity has its advantages, but it requires a big up-front cost

The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to mine from the moon

Mapping their starting point like bees do helps autonomous drones find their way