Bryan Gardiner

As more and more parts of our lives become fodder for algorithmic prediction, it’s worth pausing for a moment…

In "Friction," tribologist Jennifer Vail shows how the fundamental force that resists motion keeps driving us…

Rethinking privacy in an age of surveillance capitalism.

Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrop…

In "The Cult of Creativity," Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, …

Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation.

How Silicon Valley is disrupting democracy.

Embracing the sonic world around us.

Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates.

Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and point systems. Why did we fall for it?

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are.

On April 27, 1982, members of the California Assembly's Consumer Protection and Toxics Committee gathered in …

This article will not restore your faith in humanity. Nor will it amaze, stun, delight, shock, charm, or in a…

If the film is rare, highly flammable, and was made before 1951, there's a good chance it'll end up on George…

Sixteenth century scholars peeled away anatomical ignorance one layer at a time.

Decoding the science of why we scratch.

In the aisles at one of Hollywood’s largest prop houses

How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future