This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The police-tech giant Flock is changing officers’ access to its nationwide netw...
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at.
In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each ...
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations and with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. Now he likens the experience to having “a thought that is not my thought.” Divin...
She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost.
It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of Tijuana into Southern California, sending voice messages to her mother and sister as she walked.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved li...