A picture—perhaps one taken from the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia—is worth a thousand words, as you’ve heard before. Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry must be one for brevity, then, because he delivered a snapshot of the team’s season in merely 21. Standing in the majestic mountain backdrop of The Greenbrier last month as…
Few debates have raged longer and more contentiously in the computing industry than one: Is “open source” better than “closed” when it comes to software development? That debate has been revived as companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft have diverged on how to compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence systems. Some are choosing a…
In the fierce debate over abortion in the United States, the subject of data collection might seem wonky and tangential. But the information that state and city governments collect about abortion patients is becoming another flashpoint in the country’s bitter divide over the issue. Some states with Republican-controlled legislatures have moved to require more information…
The death certificate for Ryan Bagwell, a 19-year-old from Mission, Texas, states that he died from a fentanyl overdose. His mother, Sandra Bagwell, says that is wrong. On an April night in 2022, he swallowed one pill from a bottle of Percocet, a prescription painkiller that he and a friend bought earlier that day at…
