Question 1 is a complicated mess and the ads seem contradictory. But to technicians like me, the issue is clear: I’m voting no on Question 1.

It’s a misguided bid for a quick-fix to the climate crisis that might hold off the symptoms of global warming without confronting the necessary task of kicking the world’s fossil fuel habit.

Our video of Nixon giving an Oval Office speech informing the public that the Apollo 11 mission ended in tragedy demonstrated the potent combination of synthetic media’s capacity to fool the eyes and social media’s capacity to reach eyeballs.

Deepfakes are not ideas that can simply be countered with different and better ideas.

It’s time to renew the compact between science and society.

Life turns out to be messier than computerized decision-making systems usually can account for.

It's true that the Chinese social media app is invasive. But so are Facebook and several other domestic social media services.

Public space, with its inevitable social collisions, is a much-needed arena for society to come together.

Education for thousands of the city's students was set back by problems in distributing laptops and in outreach.

A Q&A with astrobiologist Charles Cockell, who investigates how to prevent settlements in space from becoming breeding grounds for tyranny.