In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music.

In the 1970s, 80% of Americans took vacations, and most of those were by car. Here are 10 wildly nostalgic U.S. road trips ...

Balancing academic life in the US with scattered performances at home, Elita Karim speaks about music, change and the cost of silence when stages go dark ...

The Grammy Award-nominated rock-and-blues trio, known for its 2016 full-length debut of the same name, will kick off its 2026 tour with a three-night run, starting Jan. 8, at the Egyptian Theatre in ...

In an age of endless low-quality information, it’s time to fight our instinct to seek out and absorb all we can. It takes ...

If food is one of your biggest monthly expenses, this no-annual-fee rewards card makes it easier to earn cash back where you ...

DeepSeek has released a new AI training method that analysts say is a "breakthrough" for scaling large language models.

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

After a turbulent 12 months for many major arts institutions, the new year brings a global slate of blockbuster exhibitions featuring artists from Frida Kahlo to Marcel Duchamp.

Will we to tolerate mediocrity, and to let our institutions drift or will we finally decide that being a small nation is ...

My brother graduated from college 50 years after dropping out of high school. Here’s his inspiring story. At 67, my brother ...