Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

After three years of unprecedented tech spending and nonstop hype, the demand for AI in the workplace seems to be drying up fast. Looking at the big picture doesn’t make it any prettier. Back in March ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Thinking about buying a Powerball ticket? Winning the lottery is a long shot at 1 in 292.2 million odds of taking home the jackpot. But for $2 a drawing, maybe it's worth a try. You might have your ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

As more bans on internet content appear in the US, we reached out to users to see why and how they're adopting VPNs for a privacy fix. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes ...

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do ...

A growing number of people are turning to ibogaine—an obscure and controversial psychedelic—as a treatment for opioid addiction. WSJ visited a clinic in Mexico to follow one patient’s journey. Photo: ...

The Milwaukee Brewers are National League Central champs and are still the best team in baseball. Will it last into October? Now that the Brewers have clinched a playoff spot and locked up a ...

Some other password managers allow using random numbers as the word separator. This can add a bit more entropy while still retaining the easy-to-type/remember property of passphrases. Describe the ...

Police in Florida are eating crow after it emerged that they arrested a random man in August of 2024, based on a lead generated by facial recognition software, and charged him with a horrifying crime ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...