Spotify's 'Wrapped' Ads Highlight the Weird and Wonderful
Yanny and Laurel and yodeling and more appear in Spotify’s annual celebration of quirky playlists and music streaming.
Another Net Neutrality Day of Action Draws Fewer Big Names
Etsy and Tumblr will prod users to call legislators ahead of a Dec. 10 deadline for Congress to restore net neutrality protections.
The Era of Cheap and Easy STD Treatment Is Over. What Went Wrong?
Better drugs and easily accessible clinics had stemmed the spread of diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis. Now, a perfect storm is tearing this system apart.
SpaceX Is Launching a Piece of Trevor Paglen's Art Into Orbit
Artist Trevor Paglen has built a balloon satellite intended to evoke awe and wonder back on Earth.
The Widely-Spoken Languages We Still Can’t Translate Online
People who speak languages missing from Google Translate, Siri, and Wikipedia will face future crises—leaving aid organizations scrambling.
Climate change’s highest cost: Overheated employees too miserable to work
The US economy could lose $221 billion annually by 2090, as overheated employees stop working as much or as hard.
One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race and make the technology more accessible to the developing world.
The US military is testing stratospheric balloons that ride the wind so they never have to come down
A sensor that can spot the wind direction from miles away will let DARPA’s surveillance balloons hover at the very edge of space in one spot indefinitely.
Business Email Compromise: Gift Cards
Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever
Your family and friends will be able to interact with a digital “you” that doles out advice—even when you’re gone.