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In December, in a piece about Luigi Mangione and the “blackpilling” of America—a descent into disillusionment—Vox writer Rebecca Jennings described a general malaise settling over the masses: “All swaths of Americans increasingly appear to…

The inside smelled like piney air freshener. She took a quick glance around. It was clean, the seats beside her gray and plush. The driver’s and passenger’s seats were still there, as was the steering wheel. This was just a regular SUV…

Whether any of them will implement chatbots and agents well or in new and exciting ways is much harder to say. While the addition of AI may have been enough to garner the investment needed to build a device, it may not be enough to get…

US release date: July 11The Fantastic Four: First StepsCould the third time be a charm for the Fantastic Four? That’s what fans are wondering about this superhero team, who seem to be cursed when it comes to movie adaptations of their work.…

Irrational self-belief is one of the reasons villains deeply resonate across culture, says Kevin Wynter, a professor of media studies at Pomona College. “In a repressive society such as ours that champions conformity to better cultivate…

To fix that, several startups launched niche dating apps—some puzzling, others entirely predictable—designed to satisfy unique needs, with many of them built around the promise of AI. Volar, created by a former product director at Snap,…

From Inside Out 2 to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, all but one of the 10 highest-grossing movies of 2024 were sequels (Wicked was the only outlier). Which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. For decades, the top of the box office has been ruled by…

Earlier this week, feeling somewhat inundated with memes and social media posts about Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, I emailed Simone Driessen. She’s a professor of media and…

“If I use an AI tool for research or to help me create something, should I cite it in my completed work as a source? How do you properly give attribution to AI tools when you use them?”—Citation SeekerDear Citation,The straightforward…

So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting a reaction. That’s why, at our show, there were all those big caps behind…