Traffic to Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia, naturally ebbs and flows with the rhythms of daily life—rising and falling with the school calendar, the news cycle or even the day of the week—making routine fluctuations unremarkable for a site that draws roughly 15 billion page views a month. But sustained declines tell a different…
Civilian travel to the Moon remains years away, but a California startup is already making plans to host overnight guests there. GRU Space, founded by 22-year-old entrepreneur Skyler Chan, is taking deposits ranging from $250,000 to $1 million for a lunar hotel that has yet to be built. “If we solve off-world surface habitation, it’s…
Grok, the A.I. chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, is facing mounting backlash after users exploited the tool to generate sexually explicit images of real women and children. Government regulators and A.I. safety advocates are now calling for investigations and, in some cases, outright bans, as nonconsensual deepfake pornography proliferates online. Indonesia and Malaysia moved…
Longevity has become one of the defining cultural fixations of our time. Biohackers are tracking every heartbeat, billionaires are sequencing their genomes and wellness influencers are touting the latest “life-extending” protocols as if they’re new commandments. Yet for all its promises, the modern longevity movement remains built on a narrow foundation: men’s health. The paradox…
After decades of being dismissed as perpetually 30 years away, fusion energy—power generated through nuclear fusion reactions—is increasingly viewed as a question of when, not if. Investor and public interest in fusion is driven in large part by surging electricity demand from the A.I. boom and the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S….
In an era where algorithms curate our newsfeeds and A.I. drafts our emails, one of the most human of skills—storytelling—is reasserting itself as the decisive leadership differentiator. As we enter 2026, the ability to craft and convey compelling narratives is more than a “soft skill.” It’s a strategic imperative. Stories are the connective tissue that…
Since the abrupt halt brought on by Covid-19, most Chinese companies that once dominated CES have retreated amid extended travel restrictions and rising geopolitical tensions. But Lenovo, the world’s largest PC maker, stands out as a notable exception, charging ahead in the U.S. market even as the presence of many of its Chinese peers has…
In Shakespeare’s Othello, published in 1604, the villain Iago delivers a stark reminder about what people must always truly own: “Good name in man and woman … is the immediate jewel of their souls.” And when that “good name” is filched (or taken), he adds, it “makes me poor indeed.” Four hundred years later, the…
At CES 2026, AMD CEO Lisa Su used the industry’s biggest stage to outline where the next era of A.I. is headed. The A.I. industry, she said during her keynote yesterday (Jan. 5), is entering the era of “yotta-scale computing,” driven by unprecedented growth in both training and inference. The constraint, Su argued, is no…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is the biggest celebrity in Las Vegas this week. His CES keynote at the Fontainebleau Resort proved harder to get into than any sold-out Vegas shows. Journalists who cleared their schedules for the event waited for hours outside the 3,600-seat BleauLive Theatre. Many who arrived on time—after navigating the sprawling maze…
