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A new feature uses AI to summarize push notifications. It sounds great until you actually try it.

You probably need to clean your devices more—but you also need to clean them correctly.

The new smart robot developed by Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers learned by watching videos of surgeries. Now it can perform procedures.

SpaceX launched Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on its sixth test flight from South Texas. The rocket made a safe landing and stayed intact Tuesday night as it splashed down in the Indian Ocean.

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Michal Kosinski is a Stanford research psychologist with a nose for timely subjects. He sees his work as not only advancing knowledge, but alerting the world to potential dangers ignited by the consequences of computer systems.

Every week, columnist Alyssa Shelasky asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives. The Cut’s Sex Diaries column, first published in 2007, was the basis of a 2022 HBO series.

In September, the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) signed a two-million-dollar contract with Paragon, an Israeli firm whose spyware product Graphite focusses on breaching encrypted-messaging applications such as Telegram and Signal.

Up to a third of people diagnosed with depression do not respond to antidepressants or therapy. In such cases, patients may be prescribed neuromodulation therapy, which modulates brain activity in order to reduce depression symptoms.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick for secretary of health and human services. This was not my desired outcome. Like many liberals and health care providers, I’ve been alarmed at Mr. Kennedy’s dubious claims about public health and science.