"Deepfakes" have received a lot of attention as a way to potentially spread misleading or false information and influence public opinion. But two specialists say that might not be a huge concern.

The company has faced criticism in recent years for its handling of issues ranging from user privacy to policing hate speech to stopping the spread of disinformation.

The Supreme Court is now holding hearings over a teleconference, making the audio publicly available. Jerry Goldman, the founder of the Oyez Project, offers some guidance on how to listen to it.

The ride-hailing company is cutting 3,700 jobs. It's the latest U.S. tech company to turn to layoffs to deal with fallout from the coronavirus crisis.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky described the global pandemic as the "most harrowing crisis of our lifetime" and said the coronavirus has cut the company's anticipated revenue in more than half.

The state accuses the ride-hailing apps of flouting a labor law by classifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees.

The Supreme Court, for the first time, livestreamed its oral argument on Monday. It has discussed whether generic terms can become protected trademarks by the addition of a dot-com domain.

NPR's reporter in Nairobi finds his parents connecting with his kids through TikTok. Formerly the realm of Gen Z, the app's now a family board game where Grandma and Grandpa reveal their silly selves.

Working from home requires a lot of technical setup, which is ... not a smooth process for some. NPR's Scott Simon and Jessica Hansen play out a scenario many might be familiar with.

Workers at Amazon, Target and other companies walked off the job on Friday to demand safer working conditions and transparency about how many front-line workers have gotten sick during the pandemic.

'I was thinking two weeks of quarantine and then things would go back to normal, but we realized pretty quickly that was not the case'

'Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,' Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement

Comedian takes on air travel, restaurants, ball games and other pastimes of the distant past that was 2019

The 'Biospherians' in Biosphere 2 tried to recreate in miniature everything needed to survive on Earth

Is the Æ supposed to sound like 'eye' or 'ash'? We're just as confused too

Not enough plot to stop viewers asking: 'Is that all?'

It's not hard-hitting journalism, says Chris Knight, but it gives fans lots of what they want

The lead singer of U.S. rock band Guns N' Roses and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have engaged in an escalating social-media exchange that's gone viral

Sourdough has exploded in popularity during lockdown, but focaccia is experiencing its own modest rise

In Carpathia, Irina Georgescu shines a light on the richness of Romanian food culture

What hasn't changed much in the past two month and may not change by the fall is the political fortunes of the NDP and Sask. Party.

Due to COVID-19, what we think of as traditional funerals are unable take place in Saskatchewan, and it's taking a toll on those who have lost loved ones.

Rob Vanstone has a sporting suggestion as to how a scaled-down Canadian Football League could salvage a semblance of a season.

Rookie phenom Connor Bedard is the headliner of a workmanlike forward group that's looking to come of age with the Regina Pats.

I fear that once the restrictions are lifted, people will forget and life will continue as it had before, writes Terri Sleeva.

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in La Loche is being attributed to citizens who've ignored physical distancing measures.

Moe responded to reports that some young people are congregating and spreading COVID-19 in La Loche, the centre of an outbreak that's still driving the overwhelming majority of new cases in Saskatchewan.

The plunge in jobs was 73,800 relative to February, but Saskatchewan saw a shallower decline than any other province as COVID-19 devastates labour markets across Canada.

Catering companies are having to get creative to stay in business during COVID-19.

"For people that already have mental health concerns it might be more escalated and others who have not had mental health concerns are now experiencing (them) because of some of the anxiety and stress that's caused by COVID-19."

When a European intellectual snubbed the U.S., the well-known artist excavated the giant fossil as evidence of the new Republic’s strength and power

The newfound 'invisible' object is only 1,000 light years from home

The sixth installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

While COVID-19 stymies travel, help conserve those things—from cacti to manta rays—that will beckon you later

A new book argues that controlling cancer is within reach if scientists are able to anticipate the evolution of resistance to traditional treatments

What lies inside the icy cavern seems more and more like a captive, rare animal, an Earth form that might soon be lost

Meet the hugely influential polymath, who foretold of climate change and inspired artists, writers and even the founder of the Smithsonian

Marine biologist Cristina Mittermeier discovered that visual storytelling, rather than data sets, allowed her to be a better advocate for the ocean

A new title from Smithsonian Books highlights the diversity of Earth's 10 to 100 million insect species

Spencer's ideas laid the groundwork for social Darwinism, but scholars say there was much more to the Victorian Age thinker than that

Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Smithsonian's "David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins" with some of the biggest discoveries in human evolution

The outbreak was far deadlier than COVID-19, but the empire survived

The bird, decimated by poachers and smugglers, is making a big comeback in the Central American rainforest

The famous impact 66 million years ago kicked up soot into the atmosphere that played an even bigger role in blocking sunlight than experts had realized

Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit features CNN's Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III says: ‘It’s time to put our heads down, and work’

The Global Mangrove Alliance has a goal of increasing the world’s mangrove cover by 20 percent over the next decade

The two-day virtual event will bring scientists and many other experts to highlight success stories in conservation

A new study posits that groundwater pressure might have been a tipping point for the magma system near the eruption

The story of what will happen in the coming decades and centuries is written in the geologic past