A Password Manager Is a Single Point of Failure—That Is Not the Whole Risk
A vault concentrates secrets, but the honest comparison is with reused passwords, lost recovery codes and ordinary human memory—not with perfect security.
The Woman Beside the Code
Margaret Hamilton helped make Apollo software resilient, but the famous photograph tells a richer team story than the lone-genius legend.
Three AI Companies, One Week, Zero Time to Check Each Other's Work
Google shipped a new model in three weeks, OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch dangerous ones, and Meta argued openness is safety. None of it was checked by anyone outside the building.
Google’s Pixel 11 Bets on AI Over Hardware — and Quietly Argues Your Photos Look Too Perfect
A new phone, watch and tracker arrive with more Gemini and fewer hardware changes, alongside an unusual admission from Google’s own camera team about what computational photography has been hiding.
AI and Your Job: The Five Levels That Actually Matter
AI is already doing real slices of skilled work, from hospital paperwork to heart-attack screening. How much control it is given over a task, not the technology itself, decides what changes for you.
Who Saves an Old Video Game When the Shop Disappears?
Games can vanish from sale long before their cultural value fades, leaving archivists to preserve machines, code, magazines and the human story around them.
Google Unveils Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5 and a New AirTag Rival — All Built Around Gemini AI
The event also carried a quieter admission: Google is deliberately dialing back some of the same photo processing that made Pixel cameras famous, because it had started to look too perfect to be believed.
The AI boom is becoming an electricity-grid story
The constraint on artificial intelligence is moving beyond chips: power, grid connections and credible demand forecasts now help decide where computing capacity can actually be built.
How do computers talk with voices that sound like people?
Computers break examples of human speech into small bits of sound, then put them together to sound like people do.
Getting outside despite your 9-to-5 job can improve your mental health – here’s how to spend time in nature during and around working hours
Sometimes the best escape isn’t a weekend away. It’s the park just down the road.
Foldable synthetic molecules could infiltrate and bust apart the toxic protein clumps causing Parkinson’s
Researchers are finding ways to target the toxic proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s that were once considered ‘undruggable.’
Can we remove or decrease spaces between atoms or molecules?
Turns out, changing the way atoms and molecules are arranged in a substance can give it new and fascinating properties.
White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower
A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.
When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study
People who interact with expressive robots that make mistakes react with suspicion rather than seeing the bots as malfunctioning machines.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
SpaceX aims to use rockets to quickly transport cargo across the Earth and into orbit – moves that would expand the global cargo system
Point-to-point rocket delivery could cut down on transportation times. But engineers will need to figure out how to integrate rockets into current transportation systems.
Spaceflight could change how astronauts swallow, eat and drink in subtle ways
A speech-language pathologist on how complex swallowing is – and how small changes from gravity can complicate the process.
Producing spider silk is a biological feat – scientists are using it to develop materials for drug delivery and wound care
If Spider-Man were real, he could help scientists revolutionize healthcare. Since he’s not, researchers develop creative ways to produce spider silk to study.
How hackers attack municipal water systems – and why the utilities are so vulnerable
A cybersecurity researcher explains how hackers target small computers that control a water system’s tanks, pipes and valves.
A lot of casual friends, or only a few you’re really close with? New research questions that trade-off
Friendships are integral to human health and well being, yet researchers know very little about how people make friends. A new study investigated what people prioritize for new friendships.