12 Jan A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From The 1,100-pound mystery object landed in Kenya at the end of December. Experts are still baffled.
12 Jan Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem.
11 Jan The TikTok Ban Is More Likely Than Ever While Supreme Court justices pressed both sides in Friday’s oral arguments, experts say it’s hard to see how TikTok gets enough votes to survive.
11 Jan The Evolving (and Inexact) Science of Fleeing a Wildfire As extreme wildfires become the new norm, scientists are trying to crack how to save lives.
11 Jan The TikTok Ban Would Be Social Media’s First Extinction-Level Event TikTok transformed everyday users into influencers and made entrepreneurs rich via its Shop feature. With the US ban looming, they could lose everything—and many don’t know where to go next.
10 Jan The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the LA Fires With wind speeds falling, firefighting reinforcements arriving from out of state, and more water sources online, authorities now have a critical window to take control of the situation.
10 Jan These Newly Identified Cells Could Change the Face of Plastic Surgery Cartilage cells that contain fat explain why some skeletal tissues are less rigid than others, and could one day be grown in labs to produce better materials for performing reconstructive surgeries and rhinoplasties.
10 Jan The Nintendo Switch 2 Rumors and Leaks Won’t Change Anything New information about the handheld seems to spring up every day, but it’s unclear when the Switch successor will make its appearance. It also doesn’t matter.
09 Jan California’s Wildfires Show No Signs of Slowing Down As hurricane-force winds fan the most destructive wildfires in California history across bone-dry foothills, communities face the dual threat of natural forces and a warming world.
09 Jan Your Next AI Wearable Will Listen to Everything All the Time The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on.
