A New Agnès Varda Exhibition Is an Extension of Her Life’s Work
When Varda shot portraits on location, her practice was both observational and interventionist. She took subjects around town in her car in search of suitably photogenic sites and then…
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When will we leverage our above-ground mine?
Everyone in Washington knows the score: America’s rare earth supply chain runs straight through China. It’s one of the few issues before Congress that enjoys bipartisan support. But most…
Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company founded by top researchers who fled OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round that values the fledgling firm at $12…
With limited job prospects at home, new grads are having better luck teaching abroad
When Ricardo Dollero graduated from UCLA last May with great grades and a robust resume of extracurriculars, he wasn’t expecting a particularly difficult job search. After majoring in…
Your credit score could be negatively impacted by this controversial court ruling about medical debt
Last Friday, a federal judge axed a Biden-era rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would have prohibited consumer credit reporting agencies from including certain…
Jack Dorsey’s new Sun Day app tells you exactly how long to tan before you burn
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey is back with a new app that tracks sun exposure and vitamin D levels. Sun Day uses location-based data to show the current UV index, the day’s high, and…
One of the most mysterious rocks on Earth just went up for sale
If you didn’t make the list for Blue Origin’s recent suborbital jaunt to space, why not treat yourself to a consolation prize here on Earth for a fraction of the cost? On Wednesday,…
AI therapy chatbots are unsafe and stigmatizing, a new Stanford study finds
AI chatbot therapists have made plenty of headlines in recent months—some positive, some not so much. A new paper from researchers at Stanford University has evaluated five chatbots…
Prices are rising again. Here’s what just got more expensive
Americans’ weekly grocery haul and monthly electric bill may get more expensive thanks to last month’s rising inflation rates, as Trump’s tariffs and a volatile consumer market comes to a…
Defense Department to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking: What that means—and the major risk involved
The Department of Defense plans to spend $1 billion on “offensive cyber operations” over the next four years, TechCrunch reported. The funding comes from a provision tucked into President…
Tech Billionaires Back Erebor in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank Collapse
"What I imagine is going on here is that should this become a new chartered bank … the bank would be providing this ‘cash in, obfuscated crypto out’ type of a product that would allow…
The CEO of Ciena on how AI is fueling a global subsea cable boom
Under the ocean’s surface lies the true backbone of the internet: an estimated 870,000 miles of submarine cables that ferry over 95% of global intercontinental data traffic across every…
Taco Bell’s latest launch isn’t food . . . and it’s kind of genius
Taco Bell, best known for Mexican-inspired grub like nachos and chalupas, is expanding its beverage offerings. The move, which seeks to cater to Gen Z’s insatiable thirst for both energy…
What is ‘Crypto Week’—and how will it affect Bitcoin, XRP, and other cryptocurrency prices?
Welcome to Crypto Week: No, contrary to what it sounds like, that’s not a period coined by some crypto bro investor. Instead, it’s the name members of the U.S. House of Representatives…
The Platinum Card is about to change. Amex’s new fast-format airport lounge might be a sneak preview
If you’ve ever sprinted through an airport only to land in a standing-room-only lounge buffet line, you know that the state of modern travel perks is competitive. As credit card companies…
Nvidia is set to resume sales of its AI chips to China. Here’s who’s on the ‘whitelist’ of buyers
Chinese firms are scrambling to buy Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, two sources told Reuters, as the company said it planned to resume sales to the mainland days after its CEO…
This glowing, otherworldly dress is made from millions of living organisms
High-fashion model Stella Maxwell got dressed for Iris van Herpen’s most recent haute couture show in the dark. Around her, flashes of ultra-dim red light—designed to maintain the illusion…
How a ‘Shark Tank’-winning neuroscientist invented the bionic hand that stole the show at Comic-Con
A gleaming Belle from Beauty and the Beast glided along the exhibition floor at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con adorned in a yellow corseted gown with cascading satin folds. She could…
What happens when your AI doesn’t share your values
If you ask a calculator to multiply two numbers, it multiplies two numbers: end of story. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing the multiplication to work out unit costs, to perpetuate fraud,…
How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity
About those faraway realms: Can we really credit two white Victorians, and their peculiarly German fetish for classification, with the invention of homosexuality? Anticipating this…
Why Trump’s tariffs won’t ruin your Korean beauty routine
President Trump sent a letter to South Korea last week threatening to levy a tariff of 25% on Korean products imported to the United States starting on August 1 unless the two countries…
Inside the redesign that will make you actually want to use Nextdoor
Of all the social media platforms chasing users and flooding the internet with content, Nextdoor has always been a bit of an oddball. Rather than offering Instagram-style influence or…
Laid off? Here’s how to level up your LinkedIn profile
When I was laid off from my position at Forbes, I felt completely blindsided. I had spent years associating myself with my title of marketing director at such a well-known brand, and then…
This IBM ThinkPad was astounding in 1995—and still is
Closed, it looks pretty much like any other laptop manufactured in 1995. To be sure, it’s more compact than most—making it, in the parlance of the day, a subnotebook. But it’s still…