Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?
Pets are more popular than ever. Roughly two-thirds of American homes have at least one pet, up from 56 percent in 1988, according...
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety
In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive...
260 McNuggets? McDonald’s Ends A.I. Drive-Through Tests Amid Errors
In the nearly three years since McDonald’s announced that it was partnering with IBM to develop a drive-through order taker powered by artificial...
‘Tiny Crime Fighters With Wings’: Bees Go to Work on a Virginia ‘Body Farm’
Deep in the woods in Northern Virginia last month, two human bodies were carried to a remote spot among the trees and left...
How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye
A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. Its body is flat as a pancake, its head permanently tilted to one side,...
