How an EU tax could slash climate emissions far beyond Europe
Last week, European Union leaders approved the most aggressive climate-change plan in history. The eye-catching part was the $600 billion […]
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American parents are setting up homeschool “pandemic pods”
In the past few weeks, a new vocabulary has emerged in parenting groups on social media: pandemic pods, copods, microschools,
It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans
Twitter is perfect as a megaphone for the far right: its trending topics are easy to game, journalists spend way
The US says Russia just tested an “anti-satellite weapon” in orbit
The US Space Command has announced it’s found evidence that Russia recently conducted a test of anti-satellite weapons, albeit one that
Lockdown was the longest period of quiet in recorded human history
When lockdown started in March, the world went instantly, strangely silent. City streets emptied. Joggers and families disappeared from parks.
An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews
Since the onset of the pandemic, a growing number of companies have turned to AI to assist with their hiring.
China’s Tianwen-1 mission is on its way to Mars
The news: China’s Tianwen-1 mission to Mars successfully lifted off shortly before 1 p.m. local time on Thursday, July 23,
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
Yeshimabeit Milner was in high school the first time she saw kids she knew getting handcuffed and stuffed into police
Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one.
Earlier this week as a pandemic raged across the United States, residents were cut off from the only publicly available
A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world
The concept: When we look at a chair, regardless of its shape and color, we know that we can sit
The online battle for the mental health of service workers
Morgan Eckroth became famous on TikTok as morgandrinkscoffee. A 21-year-old barista and social-media manager for Tried & True Coffee in
Russian hackers have been accused of targeting covid-19 vaccine researchers
The news: Russian hackers targeted UK, US, and Canadian researchers developing coronavirus vaccines, according to a report from the United