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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now During a conference streamed online from Neuralink’s headquarters in San Francisco, scientists at the Elon Musk-backed company gave a progress update. It came just over a year after Neuralink, which was founded in 2016 with the goal of creating brain-machine …

In a not-so-shocking, but still unbelievable, turn of events, Congress has adjourned for the summer without settling on a new stimulus package. While we can’t pass a bill to get rid of the virus, Congress can make attempts to alleviate the economic impact. To follow the CARES Act and its …

Some of us are clearly more suited than others to our current culture of social distancing and virtual get-togethers. My husband and I fall into opposite camps: Seth is a heartfelt, non-ironic hugger from Berkeley, Calif. I am not. For me, a hybrid of a British dad and Brooklyn-born mom, …