The French philosopher takes phenomena such as mass consumption, aesthetics, leisure and the kitsch to examine our world and ...

anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

As the calendar turns, many people start thinking less about reinvention and more about momentum. A new year is a clean slate ...

Concierges aren’t sitting there inventing judgments to be petty because they’re running a fast mental algorithm.

The issue: Many runners (particularly women) report that their fitness trackers tell them they’re exercising in a higher zone ...

Tech giants such as YouTube have looked to curb the spread of low-quality ‘AI slop’, but they also view AI-generated content ...

You might have seen headlines sounding the alarm about the safety of an emerging technology called agentic AI.

Data collected under the Death in Custody Reporting Act has some serious problems. Here’s how we fixed some of them.

Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...

If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Personal recommendations continue to drive book discovery more than algorithms, social media, and other digital tools, according to the 2026 State of Reading Report released today by Everand and Fable ...