A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, and Marty Makary, the new Food and Drug Administration commissioner, announced plans to ban eight commonly used...

On Thursday, Microsoft announced it had jacked up the prices on its game products, raising the price of its flagship Xbox console by $100—or 20%—to $600. It was an extraordinary move: Five-year-old...

Nearly anyone who’s anyone agrees: Bigger isn’t better—when it comes to conferences and networking. Indeed, the tech, media and finance elite have increasingly come to prefer an intimate gathering...

The robots are coming! Or so it appears. After decades of speculation about the arrival of robots that get closer to the ones envisioned in science fiction, venture funding to robotics companies...

When Ed Zitron launched his podcast “Better Offline” in 2024, a gift from the show’s publisher soon arrived at his Las Vegas home: an imposing seven-foot-tall black felt-clad box known as a...

Scientists and starlets can make strange bedfellows. But at this year’s Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., hundreds of scientists, tech leaders and Hollywood stars gathered for a...