If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery...
Joby flight at JFK airport. | Image: The Verge
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J....
Two numbers from McKinsey’s 2025 survey sit awkwardly next to each other. The first is 88 percent, the share of organisations now using AI in at least one part of the business. The second is 39 percent, the share that...
President of the U.N. General Assembly Annalena Baerbock discusses the U.S.-Iran deal. "The Pitt" actress and activist Sepideh Moafi and IRC's Sherine Ibrahim mark World Refugee Day. Susan Saulny uncovers a decades-old family secret and unpacks its impact on...
A burn ban is about to go into effect in Snohomish County.
The Snohomish County Fire Marshal has declared a Stage One Outdoor Burning Ban for unincorporated areas of Snohomish County, which will begin Monday.
That means no residential open burning,...
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Newly released video from an officer’s body camera and a surveillance camera at a Texas running track captures the moments after a teenage athlete fatally stabbed another teen from a rival team in the stadium...
In the British Museum’s Mesopotamian collection sits a palm-sized rectangle of baked clay, catalogued as UET V 81. It is roughly the size of a modern smartphone, densely incised with cuneiform on both faces, and dated to around 1750...
I typed it out plainly:
“Based on everything you know about me, why does reaching my goals still leave me feeling flat? Be detailed. Don’t flatter me.”
I was expecting to be told what most articles about ambition tell you. Set...
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The...
