What Is an E-Bike, and How Safe Are They?
E-bikes are increasingly visible on roads and bicycle paths, with a growing number of teenagers among the riders. But the…
‘A Dangerous Combination’: Teenagers’ Accidents Expose E-Bike Risks
On a Thursday evening in late June, Clarissa Champlain learned that her 15-year-old son Brodee had been in a terrible…
Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say
The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in…
Quantum Tech Intended for National Security Is Testing U.S. Alliances
The Australian physicist shook the heavy metal box that resembled a beer cooler but held a quantum sensor. A computer…
Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale…
NASA Picks Lockheed Martin to Build a Nuclear-Powered Rocket
A Number That Sums It Up: 3 to 4 months to Mars What if a spacecraft could get to Mars…
Slack Experiences a Brief but Widespread Outage
Slack, the widely used messaging platform, experienced an outage of just over an hour early Thursday, disrupting life in offices…
Looming Retraction Casts Shadow Over Ranga Dias and Study of Superconductors
A major physics journal is retracting a two-year-old scientific paper that described the transformations of a chemical compound as it…
Meta Q2 Earnings: Profit Up 16 Percent to $7.8 Billion
Long before it was called Meta, Facebook was a Wall Street darling because of its breakneck growth and big profits.…
Microsoft Revenue Up 8% to $56.2 Billion in Latest Quarter
Microsoft reported record sales and profits on Tuesday, as it shook off recession fears and began seeing the early impacts…