When Your Heart Becomes a Snitch
Modern medical devices are lifesavers. But they’re vulnerable to hackers and compromise our privacy.
Modern medical devices are lifesavers. But they’re vulnerable to hackers and compromise our privacy.
Bureaucracy vs. freedom in outer space
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The author discusses how cryptocurrencies are helping people like her build the Africa—and the world—they want.
Republican lawmakers criticized the former NIH official for playing "semantics" about lab leaks and gain-of-function research during closed-door congressional testimony this week.
Author Magatte Wade discusses how cryptocurrencies are helping people like her build the Africa—and the world—they want.
Anyone advocating neoliberal policies is now persona non grata in Washington, D.C.
Cabinet officials often use pseudonymous email accounts, but declaring them secret from records requests is another matter altogether.
Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis' love life, Catholic crackdown, and more...
Bad ideas never seem to truly die in Washington.
The errors are so glaring that it's hard not to suspect an underlying agenda at work here.
A City on Mars is a counterbalance to the growing optimism over space exploration.
As we step into 2024, it's crucial to adopt a more informed perspective on these dubious claims.
The colorful, mostly libertarian history of Key West.
Plus: State officials attempt to ban Donald Trump from 2024 election ballots.
With another “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” the second Starship test in November was a mixed success.
If our best and brightest technologists and theorists are struggling to see the way forward for AI, what makes anyone think politicians are going to get there first?
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
The good news: Regulators have exercised unusual restraint.
Eradication of the apex predator is "likely impossible."
"It's not really a movement. Nobody is pushing it. People are just living it."
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
The growing anti-transparency atmosphere in the state might make the Florida Man extinct.
The world will not come to its end in 2030 because of climate change.
In today's innovative economy, there's no excuse for sending a gift card. The staff at Reason is here with some inspiration.
The brief urges the Supreme Court to reverse its badly misguided precedent in Pruneyard v. Robins.
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"Basis of some COVID-19 vaccine technology"
Lawmakers should consider a user-fee system designed to charge drivers by the mile.
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The former journalist defends misinformation in the Trump era and explains why so many journalists are against free speech.
The webathon is technically over, but if there's one thing journalists understand, it's procrastination.
A conversation about economics, progress, science fiction—and kitchen gadgets.
The ban, scheduled to take effect on January 1, is likely unconstitutional in multiple ways, the judge held.
Plus: DeSantis vs. Newsom, a controversial Christmas-tree lighting, Brazilians use AI, and more...
Why have so few species been taken off the endangered species list?
NYPD radio frequencies have been open to the public since 1932. A new encrypted system will end that.
Plus: Four-day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, teen activists, anti-murder billboards, and more...
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
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