We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.

In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it ...

For decades, we’ve needed passwords to do things online. New forms of authentication will finally let us get rid of them for good. Instead, we’ll use a link sent via email, a push notification, or a ...

California for Times of San Diego and NEWSWELL. Previously based in Mexico City, she has written for more than 25 outlets including the L.A. Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and The New Republic.

AN MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INVESTIGATION Dying on Camera The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will ...

Climate innovator Jae-Won Chung, for example, built software to make AI more energy-efficient. By measuring the energy ...

In 2014 researchers at the MIT Media Lab designed an experiment called Moral Machine. The idea was to create a game-like platform that would crowdsource people’s decisions on how self-driving cars ...

As AI pushes semiconductors and data centers toward new physical limits, advanced materials are becoming critical to ...

While advanced AI excels at processing clinical data, healthcare's true test lies in overcoming deeply fragmented ...

AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out.

Now, they’ve taken things a step further by genetically modifying mice so their brains don’t fully develop in the first place ...