When you visit your doctor’s office, a blood pressure test is often the first thing you’ll face. Blood pressure measures how hard your blood pushes against your artery walls as your heart beats, and it’s one of the most important vital signs. High blood pressure means an increased risk of …

Honorable Mentions Not all sheets are created equal. The linens below are good but not as great as our picks above. Brooklinen Washed Linen Core Set for $269: These sheets feel a little itchy at the start compared to our other picks, and felt a little warm to sleep on …

Two members of the Extropian community, internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins—­who met on an Extropian mailing list in 1998 and were married soon after—­were so taken by this message that in 2000 they bankrolled a think tank for Yudkowsky, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. At 21, Yudkowsky moved …

While Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has taken an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. The US DOGE Service, formerly the US Digital Service (USDS), has been interviewing potential candidates in recent weeks and months, even offering salaries on the highest end of …

From Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes’ sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime seems to touch every last corner of tech. For the business titan who may one day end up in custody and can’t count on a …

Almost no one hits it big in music. The odds are so bad it’s criminal. But on a late spring evening in Louisville, Kentucky, Mike Smith and Jonathan Hay were having that rare golden moment when everything clicks. Smith was on guitar. Hay was fiddling with the drum machine and …

If you’re a Google user—and really, show us somebody on the internet who isn’t—then today is one of the most important days on the tech news calendar. On Tuesday morning in California, Google will kick off its I/O developer conference with a two-hour keynote address. In that keynote, Google execs …

Those requirements could soon become a serious problem for both Guowang and Qianfan. Since they began launching their non-experimental satellites last year, the clock is now ticking, and the ITU rules state they will need to have sent 10 percent of their spacecraft into the sky by 2026. Compared to …

Moving into a new product category is a nervy undertaking for any company, and the current climate of tariff roulette only adds another level of uncertainty. But Marshall, manufacturer of iconic guitar amps and a growing portfolio of consumer audio products, is marching on regardless, with the launch of its …

Kate’s real-life therapist is not a fan of her ChatGPT use. “She’s like, ‘Kate, promise me you’ll never do that again. The last thing that you need is like more tools to analyze at your fingertips. What you need is to sit with your discomfort, feel it, recognize why you …