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An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted apps and websites around the world, affecting more than 2,000 companies and leaving millions of users…

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The prompts read like tiny, abstract poems.“A brutal storm off the coastal cliff. The clouds are formed into tubular formations and lightning strikes are never ending.”…

The internet was my lifeline, a slender thread connecting me from Australia to my family in Afghanistan, bridging continents and time zones.But that bridge has crumbled.Afghanistan,…

This episode was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors.Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m…

The bullet casings authorities recovered during their investigation of Charlie Kirk’s killing make at least one thing clear: The alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was speaking the…

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Dara Kerr here, filling in for Blake Montgomery, who promises he’ll come back from vacation. Meanwhile, I’m looking at the memes,…

September 2, 20253 min readNew ‘Glass Straw’ Fibers Could Speed Up the InternetA cable design that sends light through air rather than solid glass could cut…

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce dropped news of their engagement on a Tuesday afternoon, interrupting work meetings, lighting up group chats and prompting ESPN to send…

August 25, 20252 min readHow You Search the Internet Can Reinforce Your Beliefs—Without You Realizing ItUsers’ Internet search questions can strengthen echo chambers, even on factual…