Back in 2017, my editor published an article titled “The Next Great Computer Interface Is Emerging—But It Doesn’t Have a Name Yet.” Seven years later, which may as well be a hundred in technology years, that headline hasn’t aged a day. Last week, UploadVR broke the news that Apple won’t allow

I have terrible body temperature control. I stick my head in the freezer when it’s sizzling hot outside. Blood vessels in my hands spasm when it’s damp and chilly. “I’m hot; now I’m cold” is a running joke in my family. But I’m lucky: Compared to cold-blooded animals, we humans have myriad ways of

A plump piece of farm-fresh chicken leg rested on a pristine surface at Harvard Medical School. Skin on and bone in, it was precisely sliced to barely crack the bone. A robot arm swerved over, scanned the breakage, and carefully injected a liquid cocktail of ingredients into the crack, including

If you’d never heard of OpenAI before last week, you probably have now. The level of attention given to recent mayhem at the company leading the AI boom underscores how much this moment has captured the collective imagination. Last Friday, OpenAI’s board of directors fired the company’s cofounder,

Amazon’s latest plan to use drones to deliver packages in the UK by the end of 2024 is essentially a relaunch. It was 10 years ago that the company’s founder Jeff Bezos first announced it would fly individual packages through the sky. Three years later, an impressive promotional video revealed that