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In May, Paris police announced the discovery of the long-missing statue, stolen from the Doors frontman’s resting place in 1988. But questions linger about who took it and why.
One day in May 1988, Antoine Le Grand, a photographer in Paris, was sent on a mysterious assignment for a culture magazine called Globe. Two young men had called the office claiming
In 1968, a 16-year-old kid booked the jazz legend to perform at his high school. More than five decades later, a forgotten recording of the show set off a fight with Monk's label that almost derailed the release of the modern classic
The greatest lost concert in American history almost never happened at all. It was Oct. 27, 1968, in Palo Alto, California. Outside of his high school, Danny Scher, a 16-year-old, bushy-haired, jazz-obsessed,
Artificial intelligence may not replace my job. But could it replace my mother?
It’s early on a Monday, and I’m catching up with my mom over my morning coffee. Though we’ve lived in different states for decades, we’ve always been close, and we talk frequently.
Crypto coins keep ripping off investors. One cyber sleuth set out to find the culprit.
Nicolas Vaiman, a scruffy 30-year-old with a dark beard and glasses, was at home in France last May when he saw a tweet from Caitlyn Jenner. “Make america great again!!!” the former
Inside an AI nightmare that tore a school apart
On January 17, @murder_ink_bmore, a Baltimore-based Instagram account with 240,000 followers, posted what it said was a voice recording of Eric Eiswert, principal of Pikesville High School outside Baltimore, denigrating Black students
Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with tales of horror as a government investigation unfolds.
Content warning: This article includes scenes of physical and sexual harassment and assault. With additional reporting by Meghan Herbst. The trouble in Antarctica started in Boston. It was August 1999, and Stanford
The rise and fall of America's fIashiest dealer in luxury watches
Just after dark, the most wanted man on Reddit slipped into his secret lair: a storage locker behind a Gold’s Gym in Venice, California. “I’ve got another storage unit full of merch,”
The incredible saga of the Henchmen brothers, hip-hop's forgotten moguls
The first time in eight years that Mario Rosemond heard his name, it filled him with terror. Almost as much as the men surrounding him with machine guns. It was March 2019,
Two experts on artificial intelligence, Ray Kurzweil and Eliezer Yudkowsky see wildly different outcomes from the revolutionary technology — a chance for immortality or doomsday
WHEN, NOT IF, ROBOTS DESTROY humanity in the next few decades, they won’t resemble the Terminator, says Eliezer Yudkowsky, the leading pioneer of artificial intelligence who now believes we’re doomed. Yudkowsky is
When the Pulitzer-winning author Cormac McCarthy called me a few months back, I heard something in his voice I hadn't heard before — age.
My last conversation with Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed and elusive novelist who died last week at 89, came as unexpectedly as the first. Over six decades of winning every major literary award,
