Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid some high school students to inscribe the papyrus with lines from Star Wars ...

The Vesuvius Challenge is an ongoing project that combines “digital unwrapping” with crowdsourced machine learning to decipher the so-called Herculaneum scrolls, badly charred 2,000-year-old papyri ...

How many times did I pick up my phone and get sucked into the endless scroll? Too often to count, thanks to the compulsion to open Threads and TikTok at all hours of the day. But I discovered a way to ...

A lot of people are getting tired of their phone—they’re sick of the algorithms and overwhelmed by what can feel like a loss of control. The Atlantic staff writer Julie Beck dug into why and how ...

Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck is a writer for Collider. He grew up creating lists, stories, and worlds, which led to his love of anime and video games. He attended Sheridan College where he earned an Honours ...

Your smartphone can make your life better — if you’re smart about it. The technology — and the time we spend on it — isn’t inherently good or bad. But “it can certainly worsen your mood, even among ...

Meta says it could face $1.2 trillion in damages in its latest social media trial in California. The social media giant could be forced to remove addictive features such as infinite scrolling. The ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls have fascinated me for years, not only because of what they tell us about Judaism and the biblical world, but because of what they tell us about one of the most disputed questions ...

If you want to tune out and relax after a long day, you might turn to social media, online shopping or playing games on your phone. But a new study suggests that these activities might actually stress ...

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Walt Disney designed Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A. to transport visitors out of the modern world into a family-friendly fantasy packed with old-fashioned storefronts and barbershop ...

My wife stared at me in shock as I ripped opened the package. The FedEx driver hadn’t even made it back to his truck as I held the item up overhead like a trophy. Fumbling for words, she asked: “Why ...

Siladitya Ray is a New Delhi-based Forbes news team reporter. The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, said its investigation found Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its “addictive ...