For decades, New York sidewalks were awash in piled-up black plastic rubbish bags, some of which doubled as housing projects for the city’s other inhabitants. “I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York ...

A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. St. Louis is a window into the problem communities face ...

President Donald Trump has justified his ramped up threats against the American political left by citing its supposed unusually violent nature. He has launched an increasingly broad crusade against ...

AI systems are only as fair and safe as the data they’re built on. While conversations about AI ethics often focus on model architecture, algorithmic transparency or deployment oversight, fairness and ...

At the “Make with Notion” event on Thursday, the company announced the launch of its first AI agent. The agent will draw on all of a user’s notion pages and database as context, automatically ...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who reported from Washington, covers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his movement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the U.S. death count from Covid-19 at 1.2 million.

CPU speeds used to be the main bottleneck in applications, but over time, CPUs have gotten faster and faster. Along with the rise of big data, applications’ use of large datasets and consequent memory ...

The recent escalation of tensions between Washington and Caracas, which has led to the United States deploying at least seven warships to the southern Caribbean, can be traced back to a particular day ...

Microsoft is refusing to tell Scottish policing bodies where and how the sensitive law enforcement data uploaded to its cloud services will be processed, citing “commercial confidentiality”. As part ...

The rapid deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has created a growing challenge in managing end-of-life panels. While many studies project future recycling potential, they are often limited by ...

The rapid escalation of AI/ML workloads—driven by increasingly large language models—is reshaping high-performance computing and AI data center architectures. Real-time inference and large-scale ...

President Donald Trump is sending the National Guard to Washington to combat what he called “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” But crime data paints a much more nuanced picture of what’s going ...