Scarlett Lanzas, second from right, and other information navigators do an exercise in which they use orange string to symbolize how communities are interconnected, at a Nov. 8, 2023, orientation for a pilot project on combating bad information. Keyvan Antonio Heydari hide caption
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday put two social media laws on hold, sending the Texas and Florida cases back to lower courts for more review. Both laws sought to regulate social media platforms. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images hide caption
An image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis is unveiled during his beatification ceremony at the St. Francis Basilica in Assisi, Italy, in October 2020. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
A robot smiles with the help of mechanical actuators beneath a flexible layer of living skin, in an image released by University of Tokyo researchers. Takeuchi et al. CC-BY-ND hide caption
A teenager uses her mobile phone to access social media on Jan. 31, 2024, in New York City. The city may soon become the largest school district in the nation to ban cellphones for students.
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An Amazon Prime truck is seen on April 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
A right-wing legal and political campaign has disrupted the work of government agencies meant to safeguard voting and subjected researchers studying online harms to harassment and death threats. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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The sign is seen above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow Monday, on Jan. 30, 2017. Pavel Golovkin/AP/AP hide caption
An employee arranges a digital price tag for vegetables at the Whole Foods store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Marvin Ruckle, who has worked as a NICU nurse at an Ascension hospital in Kansas, said problems caused by the cyberattack nearly led him to administer the wrong dose of a narcotic to a baby. Travis Heying for KFF Health News hide caption
The Scadutree towers over The Land of Shadow, a photonegative of the Erdtree in The Lands Between. Bandai Namco hide caption
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Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WDC) in June. Many of the features Apple announced there will duplicate the services of 3rd-party apps, a practice known as "Sherlocking." Nic Coury/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Social media platforms are part of what the U.S. surgeon general is calling a youth mental health crisis. doble-d/Getty hide caption
Vehicles drive toward downtown Minneapolis on Interstate 35 on a Sunday in May. Jenn Ackerman for NPR hide caption
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Bill Gates poses for a portrait at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., June 13, 2024. Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption
As of Wednesday, X users are no longer able to see which posts others have liked, with few exceptions. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
This illustration shows how the thin film of sensors could be applied to the brain before surgery. Courtesy of the Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory hide caption
Pope Francis leaves evening prayers in the Vatican Gardens on June 7. The pope will meet this week with G7 leaders to talk about the ethics of artificial intelligence. Alessandra Tarantino/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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