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Summer done simply: Sheet-pan chicken with basil and spicy corn
Itap cruel that the best time of year to bake is also when you’re least likely to want to turn on the oven, and yet every summer I heat up...

Scouting out the next wave of robot workers
A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum. It then placed the boxes on an...

Researchers poke holes in safety controls of ChatGPT and other chatbots
When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation...

A sheet-pan chicken for corn season
This basil chicken with corn and jalapeños, a sheet-pan meal that brings out the more complex side of summer corn, is made for this moment.

Five Weeknight Dishes: Herby orzo with a bright topping
If you only master two cooking fundamentals this summer, let it be these: cooking meat, fish, tofu and vegetables in utterly simple ways and making an easy sauce to go...

Air taxis, hyped for years, may finally arrive by 2028
For years, flying taxis have represented an exciting but distant dream, fueled in part by industry hype. Now they have a rollout plan and a target arrival date: 2028.

Encountering the infuriating, overwhelming and unwanted smart tech in my hotel room
These days, itap all about making do when I’m greeted by the glut of smart technology in hotel rooms. Voice-activated lights. Chatbot concierges. QR codes on television sets. Mobile browser...

There’s a pesto miracle waiting in your freezer
Sometimes a kitchen needs a last-minute miracle, and mine is always frozen pesto. At a momentap notice, I can stir a spoonful of herby, garlicky zip into any dish that...

Mitch McConnell Suffers an Episode at the Capitol, Freezing Midsentence
Mitch McConnell Suffers an Episode at the Capitol, Freezing Midsentence

The best baguette is the one you make yourself
The Best Baguette Is the One You Make Yourself