In a world of sterile shopping malls and algorithm-driven online stores, there exists a magical retail wonderland in Pasadena, Texas, where the thrill of the hunt meets the joy of discovery – the ...

Tucked away in the charming town of McPherson, Kansas sits Elizabeth Street Treasures Flea Market. A veritable wonderland where thirty-five dollars can transform your empty backseat into a treasure ...

SOUTH BOSTON, Va.—In a factory not far from the North Carolina state line, Robin Cisco walks her fingers across hundreds of feet of paper-insulated copper wire. Cisco is a “winder” at Hitachi Energy’s ...

AI is becoming an even more integral part of Spotify’s platform, with the launch of a new feature that lets users enter text prompts to build personalized playlists. Prompted Playlist, as it’s known, ...

For decades, Disneyland’s ticket booths have been an iconic part of the park experience. The clatter of coins, the rustle of ticket books, and the first excited “hello!” from a Cast Member behind the ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

This year marks the centenary of the photo booth, which made its first appearance in 1925 on the streets of New York City. But far from slowing down as they reach their 100th birthday, they’re ...

Instagram is experimenting with bringing tools to control your own algorithm to Threads, its X rival. The feature was uncovered while in development by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, ...

TikTok’s algorithm and board of directors will be “controlled by America” as part of a deal reached with China earlier this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday, following ...