Technology

A therapist tried AI therapy on himself after an assault and wrote about it in The Free Press. What the trials show, what can go wrong, and what it means

Worksheets drill compliance, gamified apps reward clicking — neither builds reasoning. How adaptive Socratic AI tutors could change the equation.

Why startups rarely turn corporate innovation programs into production contracts — and how venture client units fix the plumbing of enterprise AI buying.

Why simulation theory went from Bostrom's 2003 paper and Musk's 'one in billions' to a hypothesis physicists take seriously — and why it may be unfalsifiable.

Galaxy S26 Ultra: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 200MP camera, the world's first built-in Privacy Display, and a $1,299 price.

Pokémon turns 30: LEGO's first sets, three ANA Pokémon Jets, a Tokyo skyscraper light show — how a Game Boy cartridge became the top-grossing media franchise.

Film cameras, paper notebooks, dumbphones: Gen Z's 'going analogue' trend is spreading on the very platforms it's reacting against.

37 million Instagram posts: why '2026 is the new 2016' became the defining trend — and what the nostalgia says about a culture exhausted by AI content.

India graduates 1.5 million engineers a year; America can't hire enough AI talent. Neither has a corridor strategy — and the cost runs into trillions.

Cambridge researchers predicted users' sexuality, politics, and more from Facebook likes alone — with startling accuracy. What the 2013 study found.

Engineer Shane Todd's 2012 death in Singapore sparked murder claims tied to a proposed IME–Huawei project; a 2013 inquest later ruled it a suicide.

In 2013, Google weighed a radical anti-piracy move: starving pirate sites of their ad and payment revenue instead of just tweaking search results.

Developer Kevin Burke showed Virgin Mobile USA's 6 million accounts could be brute-forced with just a phone number — and the company first shrugged.

In 2010 Google paid $1.9 billion for 111 Eighth Avenue in New York — a decade after its NYC team began as one person working from a Starbucks.

The 2010 Gawker breach exposed how millions of people pick passwords. A look at the worst offenders — and why reusing passwords is the real danger.

At 26, the Facebook founder was named TIME's 2010 Person of the Year. Why the choice was right — and why it made so many people uncomfortable.