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Each state’s infrastructure, ranked worst to best
Infrastructure has a big impact on the quality of day-to-day life. Whether you’re struggling to get around because of poor road quality, unreliable…
I never tracked my teenagers on an app. Our relationships are better for it.
When I first heard of Life360, my first thought was that I knew I never wanted to use the app to track my two kids, despite its popularity among…
Bill Gates warns AI is ‘powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths’
Bill Gates has some serious fears about how AI can be misused. The cofounder of Microsoft made grave warnings about the tech in an interview with…
Walmart won’t charge a ‘personalized price’, CEO says
Walmart CEO John Furner wants to clear the air about how the retail giant is using new pricing technology. “We don’t set different prices based on…
Every Taylor Swift album, ranked from worst to best
Final grade: 10.3/10 This is where we cross into stratospheric territory. Because my bespoke grading system gives an extra point to the best songs in…
What I learned about AI’s PR crisis from bingeing 130 political TV ads
Political candidates are attacking AI in ads, and they’re focusing on the one thing scarier than a killer robot: a high electricity bill…
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ deluxe album has 4 new songs. They range from inspired to indefensible.
Precious few music critics would’ve said that Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” needed more songs. When it was unveiled last October, Swift’s…
My childhood best friend and I have very different adult lives. We stay connected with one annual tradition.
At Greenhorn Ranch in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, my best friend of 15-plus years resembled a stranger. Armed with a disproportionately…
The Pentagon wants ultra-precise clocks that could help troops fight without GPS
The Pentagon’s research arm has been experimenting with a new generation of ultra-precise clocks, with the hope of one day integrating the devices…
The British Army wants better drone pilots, so it makes them learn ‘the hardest way to fly’
The British Army is training future drone operators to fly manually without flight aids or GPS to make them better pilots, a commander involved in…