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Robotic Putting Greens. Mixed Reality. Loud Spectators. This Is Golf?!

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are backing a new sports league that's reinventing golf as high-energy, made-for-TV entertainment.

Steven Levy

Video Doom Loop

How Citizen Surveillance Ate San Francisco

Lauren Smiley

The Big Interview

Taylor Swift, Star Wars, Stranger Things, and Deadpool Have One Man in Common

Angela Watercutter

Latest

Nouveau Niche

Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era

Brendan I. Koerner

Save Yourself

‘Someone Is Using Photos of Me to Talk to Men’

Lindsay Jones

Game of Drones

In the War Against Russia, Some Ukrainians Carry AK-47s. Andrey Liscovich Carries a Shopping List

Samanth Subramanian

The Big Interview

Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier

Gideon Lichfield

Crypt Sweepers

Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears

Geoff Manaugh

PEACE TALKS

What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?

Virginia Heffernan

Author's Note

Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

Vauhini Vara

The Big Interview

Crispr Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Has the Guts to Take On the Microbiome

Jennifer Kahn

To Catch a Bot

The AI Detection Arms Race Is On—and College Students Are Building the Weapons

Christopher Beam

The Big Interview

Sundar Pichai on Google’s AI, Microsoft’s AI, OpenAI, and … Did We Mention AI?

Steven Levy

The Big Interview

Unhinged Conspiracies, AI Doppelgangers, and the Fractured Reality of Naomi Klein

Kate Knibbs

COME IN PEACE

What OpenAI Really Wants

Steven Levy

Empathy Exam

She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up

Lexi Pandell

Big Whup

How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth

Camille Bromley

Face Forward

Beauty Filters Aren’t Trying to Fool Anyone

Charlotte Shane

Looking Ahead

The World Is Going Blind. Taiwan Offers a Warning, and a Cure

Amit Katwala

Raw Materials

The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn't Show

Ngofeen Mputubwele

Hello, other mind

To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test

Ben Ash Blum

big interview

Grimes on Living Forever, Dying on Mars, and Giving Elon Musk Ideas for His Best (Worst) Tweets

Steven Levy

Post-Docs

The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

Gregory Barber