Today we look at the state of American inertia. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. American history is full of transformative industrial, technological and architectural innovations.

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached an initial rampdown phase for bug fixes, with the feature set now frozen. The following 10 features are ...

Understanding the core principles of computer programming is the first step to writing effective code. Learning about ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being ...

From there, commercial products are expected to go on sale. Once the technology has matured, it will have a wide variety of satellite applications, including power-beaming arrays, space tugs, and data ...

MIT researchers built an AI robotic system that turns plain-language prompts into 3D designs and assembles objects with ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend who was convicted of recruiting young girls into sex trafficking, is planning to ask a judge to release her from prison, according to a new court ...

Design tool Figma launched new AI-powered image-editing features today, including the ability to remove and isolate objects and expand images. The company said that these features will save the hassle ...

An international team, utilizing the Subaru Telescope and its SCExAO system, reported the discovery of a massive planet (HIP 54515 b) and a brown dwarf (HIP 71618 B), representing the initial findings ...