The Commodities Futures Trading Commission announces charges and settlements with three companies that may mean very bad news for all DeFi operations doing business with U.S. citizens.
Americans can decide for themselves where to live and which services they need or can do without.
Rather than posing a national security threat, the growth of China's E.V. industry is an opportunity for global innovation.
A surveillance authority in the country’s troubling Online Safety Bill won’t be enforced, officials say. But for how long?
Our political leaders envision a future in which high-tech implants snitch about our use of painkillers.
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
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Artificial intelligence is not about to replace your favorite actors.
The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
The guidelines would ignore decades of academic findings about how firm concentration can have a positive impact on consumers' welfare.
Thankfully, you don't need fancy dining halls or a college degree to have a good life or get a good job.
Artificial intelligence poses the most risk when it is embedded in a centralized, tightly coupled organization. But it can facilitate decentralization too.
Humanity has always adjusted to the reliability of new information sources.
Unwired makes an unconvincing argument for heavy-handed tech regulation.
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People see a continuing role for the space agency, but mostly in national defense.
New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.
A boomer, a Gen Xer, and a Millennial discuss the causes and conflicts of today's generational gaps.
It's a short-sighted approach that distracts us from the more important question.
The senators say they're creating an "independent, bipartisan regulator charged with licensing and policing the nation's biggest tech companies." What could go wrong?
As states continue to implement digital ID systems, it is essential that they build tools in ways that inherently protect civil liberties rather than asking citizens to just trust government officials.
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The gaming market remains competitive with a wide variety of options.
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Many politicians offer a simplified view of the world—one in which government interventions are all benefits and no costs. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Wired's "senior maverick" on his new book of accumulated wisdom, backlash against tech, and why the future still looks bright.
The enigmatic privacy obsessive is fighting to keep the cypherpunk dream alive.
More than 90 percent of Americans already have access to high-speed internet.
Americans are more afraid than excited about A.I. But these technologies offer far more to cheer than to fear.
Smith appreciated the beauty and allure of intricate systems.
"People are comparing A.I. to smartphones or the internet. I think it's much closer to the invention of fire or the wheel," says Flo Crivello.
When your business relies on volunteer moderators and user-generated content, angry denizens can threaten the whole enterprise.
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Doomsayers have a long track record of being wrong.
The ideal number of clicks to cancel an online subscription may be four or five instead of six, but we don't need government to make that decision.
The E.U.'s new virtual currency regulations will endanger privacy and trigger an exodus of tech talent from Europe, hobbling its role in the future of finance.
As the company explains, pre-market licensing would delay—or even deny—our access to artificial intelligence's potential benefits.
Futuristically thrilling but aesthetically limited
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Manufacturing improvements made affordable many types of guns that previously had been available only to the wealthy
Online platforms should resist binding us all to the rules of censorship-happy jurisdictions.
"We find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech."
Manufacturing improvements made affordable many types of guns that previously had been available only to the wealthy
The Missouri senator is once again pursuing misguided tech regulation.
The CEO of Open To Debate wants us to disagree more productively—especially when it comes to presidential debates.
How online “child protection” measures could make child and adult internet users more vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves, and snoops.
