Nathan Yau

As many of us have learned first-hand, TikTok (and its scrolling video ilk)…

Dell Cameron, for Wired, on the system currently in its planning phase:
Throughout,…

Suzanne Smalley reporting for The Record:
Social media giant LinkedIn on Thursday filed…

The administration cut $500 million of aid to U.S. food banks earlier this…

As we descend towards slop-based social media, where the videos are fake and…

Pew Research surveyed U.S. adults about news consumption on social media and found…

Earlier this year, the administration halted USAID shipments of antimalarial and HIV medical…

When there is data (or lack of it), we like to visualize it. Sometimes though, a straightforward table can be better.

Merriam-Webster is about to release the next edition of their large language model…

Due to the government shutdown, parts of the Census Bureau site, where you…

The government shutdown of 2025 begins. Here is a quick table by Nigel…

As one might expect, Congress is having trouble figuring out how to fund…

For Quanta Magazine, Joseph Howlett and Mark Belan explain the mechanics of how…

You can find rhythms and patterns when you look closely at the activities…

Most of the H-1B attention has been on companies, but many visa holders…

The wildfires keep coming, and the smoke pollution keeps filling the air. It…

This is quite a visual story from Reuters. In a comic format, they…

Here are tools you can use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.

Researchers from the MIT Media Lab studied posts to r/MyBoyfriendIsAI on Reddit. While…