Driverless trucks with artificial intelligence on board could dramatically change the landscape of freight shipping. A few companies have begun testing early models on some limited routes in Texas and California. Simulations of automated fleets show the potential benefits of the technology: The vehicles could improve safety, enhance fuel economy, and lessen transit times.

Advertising is made for the young by the young. 

As the iPhone grew into an unprecedented success, Apple was marching its users toward millions of downloads to the drumbeat of “There’s an app for that.” Meanwhile, Amazon and Google were flooding homes with waves of TV platforms, smart speakers, and cameras. These products and their underlying connectivity standards formed a deep foundation to support a new generation of AI-driven services far surpassing those of Google Assistant and the original Alexa.

On Sunday, November 1, the Big Apple will be taken over by running enthusiasts.

Let’s try a little thought experiment in technology-fiction: what would have happened if Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s PageRank, back in 1998, had failed to attract its first investors? Google didn’t invent the search engine: there were plenty of them before, from AltaVista, Excite, Lycos or others who were counting words on pages and selling their results page to the highest bidder, to catalog or portal concepts such as Yahoo! or AOL, that attempted to capture the users’ attention as much as they could to be able to serve them advertising, the more the better. Imagine if these concepts would have gone the distance, and deprived us of the web that resulted from Google’s easy and efficient way of searching … 

New York City is gearing up for another big weekend. This year, there are just eight hours between the end of the Halloween parade and the start of the marathon. Organizers of the former expect 80,000 participants in costume and 2 million spectators, while the latter will host 60,000 runners and 2.5 million fans on the sidelines cheering them on. The two routes don’t intersect, but the streets will be unusually busy. And preparing them for the crowds and their aftermath will involve an army of hundreds of sanitation trucks and workers.

Eight years ago, Otter.ai’s pitch for its transcription app was pretty straightforward: The Mountain View, California-based startup would turn audio into readable text in real time. And it would do it for free. But in 2026, the company is now competing against a chorus of competitors that all leverage AI to provide real-time transcription. Otter’s answer to that challenge amounts to changing the channel—to go beyond transcribing to extracting insights from all that banter.

When the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity released renderings of its new museum last week, it aimed to show how a museum campus could encapsulate the legacy of the 20th century’s most famous design couple, Charles and Ray Eames. The architectural project—helmed by museum design heavyweight Herzog & de Meuron, along with local firm EHDD and landscape architecture firm Field Operations—is meant to be more a celebration of the Eameses’ philosophies and ideas than an Eames theme park. 

There’s a lot to love about iOS 27 and macOS 27, the new operating systems released for iPhone and Mac last month. The Liquid Glass design language now has a fluidity and polish that it lacked when introduced last year in iOS 26 and macOS 26.

Healthcare costs are a major concern for Americans, and health insurance premiums are a primary fuel for that anxiety.

Below, June Cohen shares five key insights from her new book, The Great Remembering: Powerful Ancient Practices―And the New Science Bringing Them Back.

Would you be as proud to tell someone your child is an electrician as you would be to say they are a business major? 

When WeWork CEO John Santora assumed leadership in June 2024, he noticed a few wardrobe choices that clashed with his old-school aesthetic.

Do you remember, as a kid, going through a stack of old magazines and clipping out the sections that you liked? There was an art to it.

AI slop has a signature style. At a glance, it’s easy to clock the hallmarks of an AI-generated poster: crowded blocks of cliché-ridden text. Cutesy characters straight from the uncanny valley. Inexplicably explosion-filled backgrounds.

Something in the real estate market just got a little less spooky this holiday season. 

A good and creative costume will only go so far this Halloween. Now instead of just the costume, TikTok users are focusing on its reveal.

Traders are running scared this Halloween weekend as a combustible mix of market forces have sparked a sell-off in major technology stocks and cryptocurrencies. 

Plenty of CEOs are bullish on AI and have urged their employees to embrace it enthusiastically. A more unusual approach is to brand your workers as “losers” for not using AI enough. 

There is an uneasy feeling these days when surfing the web that the internet has irrevocably changed. Log on to social media and you’re wading through a sea of influencers psy-opping you into buying stuff you don’t need. Scroll through LinkedIn and you can barely tell whether a post was written by a human or generated by Claude to rack up clicks and likes. Everywhere you look, the internet feels a little less human—and increasingly, it is. Recent studies suggest that at least half of the content posted online is AI-generated.