After flooding our homes with every Sonos model you can buy (and filling all remaining space with the boxes of said speakers), then using them for a couple of years, we’ve come to value their audio fidelity and ability to network seamlessly together. Here are our favorite aspects of Sonos: Simple setup: The Sonos app

For 35 years, amateur and professional cryptographers have tried to crack the code on Kryptos, a majestic sculpture that sits behind CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In the 1990s, the CIA, NSA, and a Rand Corporation computer scientist independently came up with translations for three of the sculpture’s four panels of scrambled letters. But the

With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social connections and relationships. According to Kasley Killam, author of the social health-focused book “The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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Key Takeaways Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. economy is starting to “roll a bit,” acknowledging that financial markets have plunged amid uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s trade policies in recent weeks. Bessent said the economy was undergoing a “natural adjustment” to Trump’s efforts to reduce federal spending. Bessent dismissed fears about tariffs stoking