Amazon was originally an American company. With its start in Jeff Bezos’ garage, it typified the genre of plucky American businesses challenging the status quo through hard work and exceptionalism. But, despite its origin and the benefits received through the…
Recycling plastic is not easy, even if you’re funded by some of the big manufacturing companies and subsidized by the government. On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey and Aubrey Gulick discuss a recent New York…
Everyone knows that artificial intelligence is likely to be woke, but Google’s newest launch made that fact inescapable. Want an image of George Washington, a doctor, or a teacher? Gemini is sure to give you the most woke, diverse version…
The future is never as you imagined it. We’re supposed to be in it. At least that’s what the cartoons said when I was a kid. Reality is nothing like those childhood predictions. It’s 2024, cars still don’t fly, and…
Mary Rodee let her son Riley open a Facebook account so that he could purchase a snowmobile. It seemed innocent enough. That was, until a sexual predator used Facebook Messenger to access Riley through a group chat. Hours after the…
A visit to HereAfter AI doesn’t feel like a visit to a necromancer. The company’s website is clean and attractive, and it is accented in purple and yellow. A 37-second demo video with fun cartoons and a friendly female voice…
Guglielmo Marconi was stubborn. He probably got that from his mother, an Irish noblewoman who had moved to Italy to marry his father, an aristocrat from Porretta Terme, Italy. He also seems to have had no intention of fitting in…
If there is one group of Americans whose privacy should be respected — both for personal- and national-security reasons — it would be active-duty service members and military veterans. As it turns out, like the information of every other American,…
It’s taken a long time, but states are finally taking action against major social media companies for the harm they’ve caused our kids. A total of 41 states are suing Meta because of the impact its social media platforms have…
Late Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Missouri v. Biden, a case that may end the Biden administration’s circumvention of the First Amendment by outsourcing censorship to Big Tech. The case was initially filed by the states of Missouri…