LOS ANGELES -- They’re as far away as a couple of thousand feet over your head, and as close as your radio and cellphone.

They were aloft before GPS, before Waze and Google Maps, and they still are.

Where, literally, would Angelenos be without the flying eyes that guide us to our destinations through our traffic mangles and bring us close to...Read more

The AI-industrial complex is in turmoil after several of its executives and engineers warned the technology could kill some or all humans, possibly before the 2036 election. This could be real cause for alarm or just brilliant marketing. Whatever the case, artificial intelligence is already harming humans through environmental devastation ...Read more

This week, four of the six conservative justices helped to block the Trump administration’s mail-in ballot scheme from going into place this Election Day. That’s a relief, but such partisan shenanigans aren’t permanently out of the question.

First, we can’t assume federal attempts to interfere with state-run elections are forever off ...Read more

A major change by the Trump administration will reduce future power prices around the country. Unfortunately, it took a unilateral act of the executive branch rather than an act of Congress.

On Monday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced sweeping changes to the U.S. power sector. The agency is rolling back greenhouse gas requirements on ...Read more

Just weeks ago, Crystal Salter was cuddling in bed with her two young daughters.

Salter was soaking up time with her girls. Until her boyfriend stormed in with a gun and shot her multiple times in the face and torso. He was found later in his car, having turned the gun on himself.

How can a child ever feel safe again having witnessed something...Read more

It took them a few tries, but a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has now correctly ended President Donald Trump’s cynical and partisan effort to muck around with mail ballots during the fast coming midterm elections. The justices behind the ruling were anonymous except for Brett Kavanaugh, the only one brave enough to publicly oppose Trump. ...Read more

At a dark moment for American democracy, it qualifies as a relief that the U.S. Supreme Court has finally acknowledged that the U.S. Postal Service has no legitimate role in running elections. The court’s ruling this week put a well-deserved end to President Donald Trump’s plot to interfere with the midterms by steering absentee votes to the...Read more

What if, for $100 a month — less than many of us pay for cell service — you could go to the doctor anytime you feel sick?

You get an annual physical that takes as long as you need, where you can ask any medical question without worrying about an extra bill. You and your doctor get to know each other. In fact, your medical relationship ...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration is recruiting video gamers for air traffic controller job openings. This effort has yielded more than 2,000 recruits being added to the pipeline, offering a novel approach to resolve a staffing problem that has persisted for many years.

The issue is not whether video gamers will be the breakthrough that ...Read more

In 1966, Sergio Leone put three gunslingers in a desert scramble for buried Confederate gold and called it “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” No one in that film is innocent, and no one is purely evil. What separates them is the code each follows — or refuses to follow.

Understanding artificial intelligence requires the same three-way ...Read more

There are many states in America where a governor shares the ticket with his or her running mate. Nevada is not one of them.

That, however, is but a small detail.

Joe Lombardo, Nevada’s Republican governor, is seeking election to his second term. His chief opponent is Aaron Ford, Nevada’s Democratic attorney general.

But to hear Lombardo ...Read more

The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let qualifying married couples draw from the existing Child Care and Development Fund when one parent stays home with the children and the other works at least 35 hours a week. The typical benefit runs about $9,000 per child each year.

The change would not invent a new entitlement or demand...Read more

If Americans are getting so rich, why does President Donald Trump think they need a $5,000 dividend?

That’s the contradiction at the center of Republicans’ economic message with the November midterms seven weeks away.

Trump says the economy is booming. Yet last week he promised a $5,000 “Trump dividend” to every American adult citizen ...Read more

Is China a competitor — or an adversary?

The distinction matters because "competitor" implies a contest governed by rules. Competitors agree to play the same game, use common standards, submit to refereeing and accept the outcome. Economic competition assumes a positive sum: companies compete, consumers benefit, innovation expands the market ...Read more

The men and women of the U.S. Army work hard. They work hard at physical conditioning. They work hard at knowing the enemy. They work hard at training for battle.

And these days, they work harder than ever at staying out of politics and focusing on the task at hand.

“Control what you can control,” the Army tells its people. Ignore the ...Read more

Xi Jinping sees the United States as the primary obstacle to China’s ultimate ambitions: communism’s victory over capitalism, the forced “re-unification” of Taiwan, and China’s return to the center of the global stage. However, Xi is also a pragmatist. Recognizing the U.S. remains a formidable power that still benefits China’s ...Read more

You don’t need AI to figure out why some big businesses invite government oversight.

Over the last few days, leaders of major AI companies have expressed support for an industry-wide slowdown. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently wrote about his concerns over recursive self-improvement. That is when AI builds a better version of AI. These...Read more

The ongoing debate over the development of artificial intelligence took an apocalyptic turn last week. No longer is the discussion just about job-killing AI chatbots or resource-sucking data centers. Suddenly, the conversation has veered into the possibility that this technology could end human civilization — literally — within the next few ...Read more

Three heavyweights in AI development recently called for a significant slowdown in the technology, an unusual consensus among competitors that is setting off alarm bells in the industry.

But for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, this is turning into an I-told-you-so moment.

Republican DeSantis has been a well-known skeptic when it comes to the uses ...Read more