The event takes place starting at 12PM PT / 3PM ET at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas on Wednesday, January 7th. Nilay will be taking the stage with Min at 12:30PM to talk AI, the state of gaming, and ...

A new tech blog from Netflix highlights the importance of the AV1 open video codec, which now powers about 30% of the platform’s streaming and discusses a variety of opportunities to expand its ...

You probably use these tools, gadgets, and items every day—but as useful as they are, you can do better. Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and ...

Dr. McBain studies policies and technologies that serve vulnerable populations. On any given night, countless teenagers confide in artificial intelligence chatbots — sharing their loneliness, anxiety ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...

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Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...

April Wilkerson builds a sturdy garage workbench using simple 2x4 plans anyone can tackle. Poll Reveals 2028 GOP Presidential Front-Runners 'Married... With Children' stars expose behind-the-scenes ...

Why aliens might take an interest in livestock, how pharmaceuticals get such wacky names, and more listener questions. For questions about subscriptions or your Slate ...

The MP3 file type has been around for so long, and is supported by essentially all modern media software and hardware, that it might be surprising to some to learn that it’s actually a proprietary ...