Technology

Nanotechnology can already puncture cancer cells and drug-resistant bacteria. What will it do next?

A growing industry aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere—but it’s still in its infancy, and greenhouse-gas emissions remain dangerously high.

A recent OpenAI product had an uncanny resemblance to Scarlett Johansson’s character in the movie “Her.” Did the company make a critical misstep?

A medical technology can keep people alive when they otherwise would have died. Where will it lead?

It’s not another moral panic, the social psychologist says: the evidence clearly implicates social-media apps for a decline in mental health. Plus, Judi Dench on a life in Shakespeare.

One of the most influential Silicon Valley reporters chronicles the rise of an industry, and moguls like Elon Musk, in “Burn Book.”

Betting should be legal, but pro leagues and major networks are undermining the value of sports in a bid to get in on the action.

The freedom to use social media is a First Amendment right, even if it’s one we should all avail ourselves of less often.

Apple’s Vision Pro headset suggests one possible future—but there are others.

As technology accelerates, we need to stop accepting the bad consequences along with the good ones.

Joanne McNeil’s novel suggests that much of what we think of as technological progress is a new way to obscure human labor.

Call 2023 the year many of us learned to communicate, create, cheat, and collaborate with robots.

There is something paradoxical about pinning a name on an age characterized by extreme uncertainty. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying.

The so-called godfather of A.I. believes we need to put constraints on the technology so it won’t free itself from human control. But he’s not sure whether that’s possible.

The Sam Altman saga at OpenAI underscores an unsettling truth: nobody knows what A.I. safety really means.

The disruptive power of the cassette anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music.

Daniel Immerwahr, a history professor at Northwestern University, discusses why videos generated by artificial intelligence haven’t had more influence on electoral politics.

The case, centering on Google’s dominance in the search-engine industry, will have implications that ripple throughout the tech world, and beyond.

In San Francisco, it’s getting easier to hail a ride from no one.

Engineers are putting chatbots into mechanical bodies, with entrancing and unsettling results.