Should You Get Another Covid Booster?
For most Americans, the coronavirus has become a tolerable threat, on par with the flu, and requires minimal precautions, if any. But for older people...
Tennessee’s Rejection of Federal Funds to Curb HIV Alarms Prevention Groups
NASHVILLE — After offering free H.I.V. testing at a drive-through event last year, staff members at Nashville CARES, a nonprofit sexual health clinic, made an...
How AI Chatbots Are Helping Some People Have Hard Conversations
Todd Mitchem kept struggling to have honest, productive conversations with his son. “He’s 15,” Mr. Mitchem, 52, said with a laugh. “Teenagers are so difficult...
These Devices Sickened Hundreds. The New Models Have Risks, Too.
After medical instruments called duodenoscopes sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks a few years ago, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care facilities...
Bard Fork, and How to Talk So Chatbots Will Listen
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A Paler Uranus Emerges in the Latest Hubble Telescope Image
With the passage of the vernal equinox a few days ago, we in the Northern Hemisphere can look forward to the warmer days of spring...
Biden’s Options on TikTok Narrow After China Pushes Back
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration recently told TikTok that it wanted the app’s Chinese owners to sell the app or face a possible ban in...
William A. Wulf, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Dies at 83
William A. Wulf, a pioneering researcher, entrepreneur and policymaker in computer science, who helped adapt an early Pentagon communications web into the network that grew...
TikTok Stars Visit D.C. as Creators Turn into Temporary Lobbyists
WASHINGTON — In a hotel room on Wednesday morning, Janette Ok, a fashion and lifestyle TikTok creator from Los Angeles, was getting ready for a...
Utah Law Could Curb Use of TikTok and Instagram by Children and Teens
Gov. Spencer J. Cox of Utah signed a sweeping social media bill on Thursday afternoon that could dramatically limit youth access to apps like TikTok...
Code is Not Law: Case on Who Owns the First NFT Dismissed by Judge
In 2014, Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash invented the NFT at a conference hosted by the digital art non-profit Rhizome. When the NFT boom blasted...
President Biden Designates Two New National Monuments in Land Home to Ancient Indigenous Art
The United States has established two new national monuments in Texas and Nevada, President Biden announced on Tuesday, in the process providing protection to scores...
The Curator of Willem Dafoe’s Movie ‘Inside’ Takes Art on Film to a New Level
The new movie Inside, starring Willem Dafoe as an art thief, is both a psychological thriller and an art collector’s nightmare. For Italian curator Leonardo...
Director of Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum Resigns Amid Upheaval in Russia’s Art World
The longtime director of Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Marina Loshak, has stepped down from her position. She will be replaced by the...