List of Science and Technology articles
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Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador-at-large for the U.S. State Department, speaks to students during a recruitment event at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Why America Has a New Tech Ambassador
Nathaniel Fick on running the State Department’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
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Hands hold the Orb, a biometric imaging device for Worldcoin, which aims to create a World ID digital passport with a tradeable cryptocurrency, in Berlin on Aug. 1. Annegret Hilse/Reuters Sam Altman Has a Plan to Tame the AI He Unleashed
Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.
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U.S. President Joe Biden tours the TSMC Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 6, 2022. No Water, No Workers, No Chips
TSMC and other tech giants need to take climate into account or risk seeing their investments go up in smoke.
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A photo illustration shows the severed head of a Greek statue with cyber tech wires coming out of the opening of its neck for a story about AI tech regulation and the downfall of democracy. The AI Regulation Paradox
Regulating artificial intelligence to protect U.S. democracy could end up jeopardizing democracy abroad.
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Women wash ore in the artisanal copper-cobalt mine of Kamilombe, near the city of Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 20. Africa’s Critical Minerals Could Power America’s Green Energy Transition
Biden’s IRA is shutting African countries out of supply chains for critical minerals. Including them would be a strategic and diplomatic win.
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A white capital letter X is layered over Twitter's blue bird logo. The image is reflected against an otherwise black smartphone screen. Elon Musk Can’t Make an American WeChat
So-called everything apps fail outside of China—and aren’t doing great there.
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A woman uses her phone near the offices of NSO Group in Herzliya, Israel, on Aug. 28, 2016. Biden Cracks Down on the Spyware Scourge
But Europe and Israel have yet to take surveillance abuses seriously.
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U.S. President Joe Biden looks at a quantum computer as he tours the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York. The United States’ Quantum Talent Shortage Is a National Security Vulnerability
Here’s how to change that.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks at a podium with the presidential seal at the White House Washington Tries to Add Some Teeth to Its Cyberdefenses
The Biden administration unveiled a road map to thwart Russia and China in cyberspace, but experts say gaps remain.
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People walk by an ad with two Bitcoin cryptocurrency tokens. America Is Missing a Big Opportunity on Blockchain
High-profile crypto fraud cases have spooked Washington—and now it’s failing to shape the future of finance.
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An illustration shows Elon Musk caught in a tangle of scribbles with Twitter logo and blue checkmarks Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Becoming a Sewer of Disinformation
Changes to the platform have systematically amplified authoritarian state propaganda.
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An employee of Air Liquide in front of an electrolyzer at the company's future hydrogen production facility of renewable hydrogen in Oberhausen, Germany. Hydrogen Is the Future—or a Complete Mirage
The green-hydrogen industry is a case study in the potential—for better and worse—of our new economic era.
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The logos of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok, Snapchat, and Instragram shown on a computer screen in Lille. Free Speech Social Media Doesn’t Exist
Why laws banning hate speech and misinformation are already redundant.
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People walk in front of building 10 on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States
Here’s why that spells bad news for Washington.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, is guided by a four-legged robot as she arrives for the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva. It Was Set Up to Regulate Telegraphs. Now It’s Grappling With AI.
The U.N.’s oldest agency is taking on the world’s newest technology.
