The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged
The Internal Revenue Service paid Palantir $1.8 million last year to improve a custom tool designed to help the tax...
The Deceptively Tricky Art of Designing a Steering Wheel
Could you design a steering wheel? How hard could it be? A circle with some spokes. A central space for...
Your Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are
Flavored vapes are everywhere. The US Food and Drug Administration heavily restricted the products for a variety of reasons, including...
Acer Promo Codes and Deals: Save 40% on Bundles
Acer is one of the top largest PC manufacturers in the world, perhaps best known for its gaming line and...
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better known as NeurIPS—became the latest organization this...
The Best Office Chair Is $50 Cheaper Than We’ve Seen Before
We’ve professionally sat in a lot of office chairs, and the Branch Ergonomic Chair Pro has held the top spot...
10 Things You Can Do While Waiting in the TSA Line
For more than 40 days and 40 nights, the US Congress failed to come to a deal that would restart...
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
As the United States-Israel war with Iran barrels into its second month, President Donald Trump is reportedly plotting a potential...
One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes From Solar Power
There’s a whole menu of different energy sources to choose from in generating electric power—coal, gas, wind, and so on—and...
I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often
OpenAI is starting to stuff the free version of ChatGPT with ads. So, I spent this week asking ChatGPT 500...
At Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the War Isn’t Over
Gauze saves lives, but Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City must ration what little it has, months into a supposed ceasefire....
A $20 Billion Crypto Scam Market Faces a New Government Crackdown
Chinese-language online black markets have become one of the biggest drivers of cybercrime in history, processing tens of billions of...
The Sony Afeela Was Doomed to Fail
Sony-Honda is no longer Afeelin’ it. This week, the Japanese joint venture that for years had promised to bring a...
The Sony Afeela Was Doomed to Fail
Sony-Honda is no longer Afeelin’ it. This week, the Japanese joint venture that for years had promised to bring a...
Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
Six Democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation’s top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services...
