Sandra Upson

AI-generated video, photos, and audio that mimic the real world are already here. Now we get to live among them.

The second episode of season two finally shows the places beyond the parks.

More than 100 employees and investors cheered from the trading floor below, their phones held high to capture the scene. Kristin Holloway, employee number 11, looked up at the balcony and snapped photos, then popped them into a text to her husband, Lee Holloway, the company’s third cofounder. He was home in California. Every so often, a familiar face pushed through the throng to say to her, “Lee should be here.” In Cloudflare’s early years, Lee Holloway had been the resident genius, the guy who…

It started with the district hiring a little-known virtual charter school company, which led to balky connections and an even more troublesome curriculum.

Reopening in the fall was a massive gamble. At one high-poverty elementary school, navigating the risks paid off.

When two Canadian coders started an online project called CryptoPunks, they had no idea they’d spark a hyped-up, blockchain-fueled cultural juggernaut.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is like a huge heat pump, taking water from the tropics to the north, warming areas in Europe. But as climate change accelerates, AMOC is becoming less stable. It might even be headed to a shutdown.