A driver is captured using a phone behind the wheel in New York in this 2016 in photo. The problem of distracted drivers has only gotten worse, one set of data from millions of drivers shows. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesDuring the pandemic, distracted driving increased, and it hasn’t gone down since. Until relatively recently, good data on the problem of distracted driving has been hard to find. The government estimates... Read more ›
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CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesOpenAI’s Sora is designed to be a “world simulator.” Right now it’s having trouble breaking a glass. A tiny fluffy monster kneels in wonder beside a lit candle. Two small pirate ships battle inside a churning cup of coffee. An octopus crawls along the sandy floor of the ocean. A Dalmatian puppy leaps from one windowsill to another. These are among a series of demo videos... Read more ›
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 AI models are revolutionizing weather forecasts. We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional forecasting methods. This video explains the... Read more ›
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Getty/Paige Vickers for VoxCan new legislation protect us from the companies building tech to read our minds? If you take it for granted that nobody can listen in on your innermost thoughts, I regret to inform you that your brain may not be private much longer. You may have heard that Elon Musk’s company Neuralink surgically implanted a brain chip in its first human. Dubbed “Telepathy,” the chip uses neurotechnology... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesIn the conversation about open marriages and polyamory, America’s sexual anxieties are on full display. Everyone’s talking about polyamory. You might have read about it, at least if you pay attention to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, or New York magazine, or if you listen to podcasts like Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin? and The Ezra Klein... Read more ›
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Cars make their way heading east out of Los Angeles during the evening rush hour on January 25, 2024. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty ImagesYou’re paying a lot more for car insurance than you were in 2020. Here’s why. If you pay for car insurance, you’ve probably noticed that rates are really high lately. You’re not alone. Last week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — the government’s method for... Read more ›
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Tarini Sharma for VoxThe revolutionary left’s theory of the climate crisis puts ideology above inconvenient truths. Seventeen years ago, the British novelist John Lanchester puzzled over a “strange and striking” fact: No one was blowing anything up to fight climate change. This was strange, Lanchester wrote, because “terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action.” What’s more, there was no shortage of... Read more ›
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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers speaks about funding for the I-535 Blatnik Bridge before a visit by US President Joe Biden on January 25, 2024, at Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin. | Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesThey could break the GOP’s longstanding gerrymandered grip on the state legislature. Wisconsin now has legislative maps that align more closely with voters’ political preferences, a significant development that will fuel more competitive contests and could... Read more ›
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Permanent Representative of the US to the UN, Linda Thomas Greenfield, center, votes against and vetoes the latest attempt at the UN Security Council to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, in New York on February 20, 2024. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe US vetoed another Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN Tuesday and proposed a different one. For the third time since war broke out in Gaza... Read more ›
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Jens Kalaene/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesDid Alabama’s Supreme Court just ban IVF treatments? The moment the US Supreme Court released its decision overruling Roe v. Wade, pretty much everyone who closely follows constitutional law wondered which rights would be next on the chopping block. Justice Clarence Thomas stoked these fears with a concurring opinion calling for the Court to “reconsider” the rights to contraception, marriage for same-sex couples, and the... Read more ›
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, pictured during her meeting with Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib on February 19, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. | Didier Lebrun/Photonews via Getty ImagesYulia Navalnaya picks up her husband’s battle against Putin. Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, announced Monday that she would take up her husband’s crusade against President Vladimir Putin following his death while in prison.... Read more ›
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Former President George W. Bush speaks during the Struggle for Freedom Conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center on November 16, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. | Richard Rodriguez/Getty ImagesIn a dissenting opinion, Alito takes a potshot at Bush’s signature racial justice program. The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will not hear Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, a lawsuit attacking a school admissions program that... Read more ›
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From left, Democratic Reps. Nydia Velázquez, Ilhan Omar, Jackie Speier, and Carolyn Maloney make their way to the Supreme Court for a sit-in to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, on July 19, 2022. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesWorsened anxiety and depression is a predictable (and costly) effect of abortion bans. The false idea that getting an abortion makes women irreparably depressed and anxious, that... Read more ›
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Israeli soldiers drive a tank on the border with the Gaza Strip on February 11, 2024. | Ariel Schalit/AP PhotoThe conflict in Gaza has become “an era-defining catastrophe.” It’s increasingly clear what — and who — is to blame. At the end of November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning... Read more ›
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You don’t have to be an expert to get a lot out of art. | Getty Images/fStopArt is for everyone. Here’s how to approach your next trip to a gallery or museum. “If you tried to reimagine your life without art ... it would look radically different,” says Karen K. Ho, a writer for ARTNews. “Art intersects with more things than people think.” It’s not just the van Goghs and... Read more ›
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Jon Stewart hosting The Daily Show last time around, on August 6, 2015. | Brad Barket/Getty Images for Comedy CentralThe host’s return to The Daily Show is a coda to a golden age. Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show has been, on the metrics, a success. According to Comedy Central, his first episode back on February 12 was watched by 1.85 million total viewers across premiere simulcasts and encores,... Read more ›
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A bump stock device, at left, which fits on a semi-automatic rifle to allow it to fire much like a fully automatic rifle, is installed on an AK-47 at a Utah gun store in 2017. | George Frey/Getty ImagesGarland v. Cargill asks whether gun makers can evade the ban on machine guns with a device called a bump stock. On February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a case that... Read more ›
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Kali Reis explores the ice in True Detective: Night Country. | Michele K. Short/HBOWhat True Detective’s fourth season gets wrong about True Detective. To be a True Detective fan is to wrestle with uncomfortable contradictions. The first season is both a masterpiece of cosmic horror noir and a piece of art that feels like it was created not just by, but for men. It was a gritty treatise against toxic... Read more ›
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Paige Vickers/VoxPlus, a suggestion for what to do if you come into a windfall. On the Money is a monthly advice column. If you want advice on spending, saving, or investing — or any of the complicated emotions that may come up as you prepare to make big financial decisions — you can submit your question on this form. Here, we answer two questions asked by Vox readers, which have... Read more ›
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If you don’t build housing, they’ll build the wall. | Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty ImagesIn this house, we believe that high rents fuel nativist backlashes. The United States needs more immigrants. But at the moment, it does not especially want them. The country’s fertility rate has fallen far below the replacement level. Absent immigration, our nation will grow older and smaller simultaneously. In that scenario, a... Read more ›
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