If you were given $100 and five minutes in a bookstore, which titles would you pick? That’s the premise of Simon & Schuster’s upcoming web series, Bookstore Blitz—the publisher’s latest internet-inspired effort to market its authors.
And Bookstore Blitz is just the beginning. In a recent interview with The Cut’s Cat Zhang, the f
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers, background checks and age verification requirements
Current and former government technologists reacted with shock and disbelief to reports that top Trump Administration officials used the consumer messaging app Signal to discuss and plan bombing strikes against Yemen-based Houthis.
Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by electronic warfare—drones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead.
This concept underpins a growing wave of efforts to use cameras, sensors, and AI to keep drones “aware” of their surroundings, allowing them to complete their missions or
China protested Wednesday after the U.S. added dozens of companies to its export control list, including more than 50 based in Chi
After artificial intelligence made waves in content creation across Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and digital advertising (such as Puma’s recent AI-powered campaign), the technology is now stepping into the world of animation. Traditionally a craft requiring meticulous storytelling, careful planning, frame-by-frame adjustments, and long rendering ti
A recent group chat between high-ranking Trump officials may not exactly have been secure, but its place in internet culture certainly is.
The fiasco known as Signalgate introduced what may already be the most infamous group chat in American history, inspiring a flood of memes across all social media realms and unveiling a string of patriotic emoji that now holds
The companies racing to own the AI future have built their technologies and businesses by carefully keeping track of you and your data. But they would prefer you didn’t keep track of them and specifically the ways in which they’ve been adjusting their voluntary ethical and privacy commitments—some of the few safeguards meant to keep that AI future safe.
As the Trump administration actively dismantles safety guardrails to promote “American dominance” in AI a
An Elon Musk superfan (or a master of satire) has released a music video filmed on the back of a Tesla Cybertruck—and it’s just as wild as you might imagine.
Alessandra Basher, a self-described stay-at-home mom with dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian, posted the video on Sunday to her 56,867 followers on X. She explained that she felt compelled to write the song in response to the “nonsense hate” Musk has re