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In Sengier’s mining towns, as elsewhere, the Congolese were unable to move freely without permits. Or to vote.…

In looking over the footage for the doc, was there anything that surprised you?Curry: I guess the one thing that…

A fleet of robot ships bobs gently in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf, somewhere between Bahrain and Qatar,…

When Small entered the cemetery for the first time in the summer of 2012, she burned sweetgrass—a plant with…

Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early fifties,…

A year ago, the idea of holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. But…

The scene is straight out of Boots Riley’s madcap moviemaking handbook. In a city where Black residents have been…

About a month into the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist, noticed that she had come untethered…

SATYA NADELLA: When we went from GPT 2.5 to 3, we all started seeing these emergent capabilities. It began showing…

Looking back, I believe I can pinpoint the exact day I loved Twitter most: May 24, 2011. I was in a small Oregon…