Sometimes you have a simple question that you need answered and not a lot of time to get it answered. Why not toss it to AI? A conceptualized image created with the assistance of AI of three office workers and a robot sitting around desks in a “pod”. The...
Australia is drawing up a roadmap for regulating social media. Is it one other countries should follow? A phone screen asks a user to opt in for a social media algorithm. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global...
Some promising new drugs have been shown to prevent new HIV infections. But for now, it seems, they go only to countries that can pay. Activists protest the limited access to lenacapavir in front of pharmaceutical company Gilead’s booth at AIDS 2026 in Rio in...
In India and across the world, journalists are finding that they must please a robot before they can get their story to an audience. An editor tells a reporter the algorithm liked their story. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for...
Parents want to protect their children from harmful ideas. But when young people figure out ways past digital locks, is control over content even possible? A U.S. passport and birth certificate. (Illustration by News Decoder) Editor’s note: On 17 August 2026,...
An invisible glue holding the universe together and launching telescopes into orbit: Those ideas came from women who elbowed their way into astronomy. Vera Rubin and other astronomers work on a telescope at Lowell Observatory in 1965. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie...
Wars are being fought by drones controlled by human operators thousands of miles away. What happens when we take the human out of that picture? Three different types of unmanned weaponry. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article was produced exclusively for News...
Schools are limiting how and when teens can use their phones. But some students say: Maybe give us a heads up first and ask what we think? Teens use phones in a school hallway even though a chalkboard tells them it is against the rules. (Illustration by News Decoder)...
The global fuel supply has been upended. We give you a range of News Decoder stories on the promise and problems of transitioning to alternative energy. Solar photovoltaic panels. (Photo credit: songqiuju/Getty Images) In Colombia this week, more than 50 nations along...
Young people face a Catch-22: employers demand previous experience before they will hire, yet artificial intelligence is taking over the entry-level jobs. A man stands before a labyrinth. (Illustration by Ra2studio for Getty Images) This article was produced out of...