The robots were everywhere. Some pedaled around like “Star Wars” droids. Others manipulated hospital surgery equipment. They all provided a glimpse of what a future powered by artificial intelligence could look like.
Lou Nasti was known as the Geppetto of Brooklyn for his glasses, his bushy gray mustache and, above all, his preternatural ability to grant sentience to toys. Using his robotics expertise, he animated legions of puppets and dolls for holiday displays around the world.
There is a lot of talk in Beijing this week over when President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China will meet face to face. Some Chinese experts say the two leaders need to wait a few months until Trump decides exactly what tariffs he is going to impose on China — and sees what China will do in response.
California regulators granted Tesla a permit on Tuesday to operate a ride service in the state, an early step toward the electric carmaker’s ambitions of having its own robot taxi fleet.
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.
President Trump’s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research.
Four private astronauts lifted off from Florida on Monday on the Fram2 mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole.
When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes.
President Trump plans to meet with top White House officials on Wednesday to discuss a proposal that could secure TikTok’s future in the United States, two people familiar with the plans said.
This week, we dig into the group chat that’s rocking the Trump administration and talk about why turning to Signal to plan military operations probably isn’t a great idea. Then, we’re joined by the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel to discuss his new book “The Scaling Era,” and whether he’s still optimistic about the broad benefits of A.I. And finally, a couple weeks ago we asked whether A.I. was making you dumber. Now we hear your takes.
Last year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, and Tom Alison, one of his top lieutenants, were discussing how they wanted to reshape Facebook for the future of social networking.
On Jan. 18, I was one of millions of Americans scrolling through TikTok when service for the all-you-can-binge video buffet suddenly halted just before a federal government ban went into effect.
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.
Surveillance footage shows the moment two 22-year-old men broke and stole a statue of the children’s book and film character Paddington Bear from a bench in Newbury, England, earlier this month. The two men have been sentenced for “criminal damage.”
Increased federal spending in recent years has helped to improve U.S. ports, roads, parks, public transit and levees, according to a report released on Tuesday by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Fred Eversley, a sculptor who used a technique dating back to Isaac Newton to make otherworldly discs of tinted resin, died on March 14 in Manhattan. He was 83.
Kathan Brown, the founder of the San Francisco-based company Crown Point Press, who helped revive the centuries-old art of intaglio printmaking in the United States, producing limited-edition prints by artists like Elaine de Kooning, Chuck Close and Francesco Clemente, died on March 10 at her home in the Bay Area. She was 89.
The tectonic plates of the art world are always shifting as regions and countries gain or lose market power. An art fair provides useful data about the changes.
The artist Qualeasha Wood can make a computer glitch look mythic. She distorts her likeness freely in her large-scale recycled cotton jacquard tapestries, which are machine- and hand-embroidered and beaded with webcam and iPhone self-portraits, as well as snapshots of memes, early aughts-style desktop screens and other digital ephemera, each pixel represented by a stitch. Sometimes she layers dozens of pictures of her face, smearing her eyes, cheeks and lips into one another. In a few of the tapestries in her new solo show, which opens this week at London’s Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, the artist poses in lingerie, but parts of her body are erased, cropped or censored by heavy pixelation. Choppy text — a mix of computer code and poetry — runs across the malfunctioning images. The color scheme is mostly blues and greens, as though Wood, 28, were lounging underwater.
Fashion and art have long danced a pas de deux, with artists evoking dress in their work and designers referencing art in their creations.