China Will Tax Contraceptives in a Bid to Improve Birth Rates
Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on...
3 New Tricks to Try With Google Gemini Live After Its Latest Major Upgrade
Gemini Live is the more conversational, natural language way of interacting with the Google Gemini AI bot using your voice....
The New Surveillance State Is You
Privacy isn’t dead. Just ask Kristi Noem. The Department of Homeland Security secretary has spent 2025 trying to convince the...
The Earth Is Nearing an Environmental Tipping Point
In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The...
Home Chef Promo Code: 50% Off
Out of the dozens of services I’ve tested, Home Chef is my favorite meal kit service for beginner cooks. It’s...
How Much Melatonin Should You Be Taking? (2026)
When you’ve worked in the sleep industry long enough, you’re going to hear one question resurface time and time again:...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Sarah Sajedi was visiting Phi Phi Island, Thailand, when she was dazzled by the beautiful scenery of the Andaman Sea....
Billion-Dollar Data Centers Are Taking Over the World
When Sam Altman said one year ago that OpenAI’s Roman Empire is the actual Roman Empire, he wasn’t kidding. In...
The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance
2026 will be the year when US dollar dilution—the quiet erosion of its global dominance as countries trade and pay...
Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily...
The Environmental and Human Rights Costs of China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News as part of its Planet China series and is part of the...
So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen
On a drizzly and windswept afternoon this summer, I visited the headquarters of Rokid, a startup developing smart glasses in...
In Cryptoland, Memecoin Fever Gives Way to a Stablecoin Boom
When US president Donald Trump launched his own meme cryptocurrency on January 17, days before his return to the White...
The US Must Stop Underestimating Drone Warfare
In 2026, we won’t see terrorism incidents similar to 9/11, when hijacked airplanes struck the World Trade Center, or the...
Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?
In the original Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner escape Port Royal by strolling out to...
