Real scientists are searching for alien life. Don’t let the kooks distract you. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews , PhD, is an award-winning freelance science journalist and author who writes about the Earth, space, and planetary sciences. This summer, a stony-faced David Grusch, a former US Air Force intelligence officer, sat before a Read More…
The New York Times v. OpenAI, explained. If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spotify and Apple Music, took college campuses by storm in the late 1990s. This Read More…
Share All sharing options Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court building in 2019. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and Read More…
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown. ILLUSTRATION: SAM RODRIGUEZ Just over a decade ago, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for Read More…
A Canadian company has begun drilling near the protected Okavango River Delta, promising jobs for locals and endless fossil fuel for investors. So far, there’s been no oil — but there have been big profits for the founders Mar 26, 2023 10:10 am AT THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land Read More…
Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health. Rebecca Jennings Photo by Christina Animashaun/Vox When I first downloaded TikTok, in the fall of 2018, it only took a few days for my algorithm to figure out that I have ADHD. To be fair, this isn’t all that impressive, as TikTok and the rest of Read More…
