In 2020, 86 researchers pooled 43 separate longitudinal datasets, more than 11,000 couples in total, and handed the combined data to a machine learning model with one job: find out which of over 2,000 measured variables actually predict how...
In 2016, a team of UCLA researchers built a working replica of Instagram inside an fMRI scanner. Teenagers lay in the machine and looked at photographs, some of them their own, each stamped with a like count the researchers...
Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s former socialist councilwoman running for the District 9 congressional seat Adam Smith has held for nearly 30 years, is not at all happy about the fake posters and mudslinging stickers popping up around town.
“I call them...
Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform....
Four Washington legislators who went on a 2025 tour of Israel paid for by the Israeli foreign ministry last September amid the Gaza genocide have in recent years pushed legislation in Olympia benefitting the Israeli government, including bills to...
Everyone loves a little greenery. I’ve seen some great plant displays in yoga studios, coffee shops, and therapists’ offices all over Seattle. But why in the sweet grey city of rain do we not water our plants? I’m talking...
The Sharge Disk Pro 2. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
Sharge, the company that makes delightful retro Mac-shaped chargers and see-inside batteries, is finally impressing me with a portable SSD. I couldn't recommend the Sharge Disk, Disk...
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Really, is there anything else worth talking about right now? Jimothy has been in the collective consciousness for a little more than two weeks now, and I—along with most everyone I know, the entire city, half of...
The generous person’s phone is rarely silent because nobody knows their number.
People know it very well. They use it when the relationship ends, the parent becomes ill, the job feels impossible or the decision cannot be made alone. The...
Both Amazon and Costco are offering some solid deals. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that’s still live, but if you’re an iPhone owner, we ultimately...
