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Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.

This documentary, from the director of “Room 237,” is a lively yet superficial exploration of the theory that our reality is actually a computer simulation.

Researchers have banded together to find safe, virtual ways to teach the principles of microbiology and epidemiology.

A Chinese tech company designed a way to track employees’ health, but sensors were also monitoring when they were away from their desks, setting off a debate about privacy and surveillance.

Imagery from the Cold War’s Corona satellites is helping scientists fill in how we have changed our planet in the past half century.

Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.

The publication is the second in a series, from a team led by a Chinese scientist, that has been widely discredited by experts.

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket hasn’t flown space tourists yet, but it has found a business niche with NASA and private science experiments.

“People are basically good” was eBay’s founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say, a campaign to terrorize a blogger crawled out of a dark place in the corporate soul.

A giant new vessel, OceanXplorer, seeks to unveil the secrets of the abyss for a global audience.

This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.

A Japanese company said it had completed a manned flight of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing machine. Experts say the technology needs work and that it will be expensive.

The launch of the Hope orbiter was delayed because of weather. The mission’s goal is to make contributions to research on the red planet. But the Emirati government really hopes it will inspire future scientists.

Researchers enlisted quantum physics to send a “secret key” for encrypting and decrypting messages between two stations 700 miles apart.

“At home, it seems to be a bit easier to focus on all the work,” said one eighth grader who was struggling in school. “Everything in general is easier.”

Some astronomers who have criticized the company’s orbital internet constellation were encouraged by the measures it announced.