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β€˜Hard Fork’ Live, Part 3: Differing Visions of an A.I. Future

One final episode from our live event, featuring a debate, questions from listeners and the dramatic and unplanned collapse of a dancing robot.
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β€˜Hard Fork’ Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era

β€œI think if you have a creative voice in writing or design, you put yourself out there and you take a risk β€” this is a good time to do that,” said the Figma chief executive Dylan Field.
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Your GPS Lies in Cities. Scientists Finally Fixed It

Chicago SkyscrapersScientists have found a way to make GPS remarkably accurate in city β€œurban canyons,” where navigation has long gone wrong. Most of us trust that the location shown by our GPS is accurate. But anyone who has tried navigating an unfamiliar city knows that is not always the case. You may be walking steadily down [...]
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β€˜Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

A tech titan, a digital rights defender and two menacing-looking robot dogs took the stage at our second-ever live show.
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Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of the Strange Hum Heard Around the World

Blurry Hearing The HumA mysterious low-frequency sound known as The Hum has been reported around the world for decades, leaving researchers searching for its source. Imagine lying in bed late at night and hearing a faint engine-like drone that seems to come from somewhere outside. You check the windows, listen for traffic, and search for a nearby machine. [...]
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Democrats Pledge to Fight Trump’s Termination of Ocean Monitoring Observatories

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

Β© National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative

Recovering a surface buoy β€” part of a network of moorings, buoys and gliders making observations of the ocean β€” from the Irminger Sea off Greenland’s coast, in 2021.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

Β© Rebecca Travis/WHOI

A mooring that was used in the Ocean Observatories Initiative was recovered after operating for a year in the Gulf of Alaska.
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