During an interview on MS NOW's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ridicules FBI Director and "clown show" Kash Patel for forcing FBI agents to escort his ...

Tension: We’ve outsourced our moral development to recommendation engines that optimize for engagement rather than wisdom, creating value systems built on what keeps us scrolling. Noise: Tech ...

Now that the character is regarded as one of his career-defining roles, it's hard to imagine anyone other than Jim Parsons playing Sheldon Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory." After all, the actor ...

Last month, my husband, our 6-year-old daughter, and I flew from Nashville to San Francisco for our yearly visit with my brother and his family. Every time, my nervous system exhales amid the city’s ...

A wearable companion is a brilliant idea — in theory. By Amy X. Wang See them out there — those eight billion strangers? For close friendship to blossom between any two people, empirically speaking, ...

When I landed a dream job, I had to move across the country to New York City. My friend and I found a unique apartment for less than $4,000 a month, but I would have no windows. Although the apartment ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

People tore apart a cutout of the device while chanting ‘get real friends.’ People tore apart a cutout of the device while chanting ‘get real friends.’ is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat ...

When I was young, I had a little white dog named Shoon. Though his insides were puff and polyester, I saw a friend whenever I looked into his resin eyes. At night, I would pull him close to my chest — ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...