Rumors, death, and a tech overhaul: Inside Amazon’s race to hire 175,000 workers during a pandemic
It was a surge unlike any other, even for Amazon. In the first quarter of 2020, the e-commerce giant’s net...
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A teenager’s guide to building the world’s best pandemic and protest trackers
The coronavirus pandemic and the protests sparked by the May 25 murder of George Floyd have been the defining events...
Twitter wants you to read articles before you retweet them
The news: Twitter is testing a new feature on Android phones that prompts people to read articles before they share...
How K-pop fans became celebrated online vigilantes
When the Dallas police called for the public to send them videos of illegal activity during protests a week ago,...
Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
Three thousand light-years from Earth sits Kepler 160, a sun-like star that’s already thought to have three planets in its...
How Google Docs became the social media of the resistance
In the week after George Floyd’s murder, hundreds of thousands of people joined protests across the US and around the...
No, coronavirus apps don’t need 60% adoption to be effective
With dozens of digital contact tracing apps already rolled out worldwide, and many more on the way, how many people...
The activist dismantling racist police algorithms
Hamid Khan has been a community organizer in Los Angeles for over 35 years, with a consistent focus on police...
Twitter put a warning on a Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”
The news: Twitter placed a warning label on a tweet from US President Donald Trump early on May 29, saying...
The UN says a new computer simulation tool could boost global development
The news: The United Nations is endorsing a computer simulation tool that it believes will help governments tackle the world’s...
NASA astronauts just flew SpaceX’s Crew Dragon into orbit for the first time
This post has been updated. What happened: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Crew Dragon was launched at 3:22 p.m....
The exhausting playbook behind Trump’s battle with Twitter
Four years ago, a Breitbart writer famed for championing a harassment campaign targeting women in video games used his air...
AI could help scientists fact-check covid claims amid a deluge of research
An experimental tool helps researchers wade through the overwhelming amount of coronavirus literature to check whether emerging studies follow scientific...
Prepare to be tracked and tested as you return to work
A day in the life of Salesforce workers will look very different when they return to the software company’s offices....
Self-driving cars are being trained in virtual worlds while the real one is in chaos
Brandon Moak felt as if a freight train had hit him. It was mid-March, and the cofounder and CTO of...
The antimalarial drug Trump took for covid might actually be dangerous
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are two of the most hyped drugs being studied as treatments for covid-19, thanks in large part...
This is SpaceX’s big chance to really make history
On Wednesday, May 27, at 4:33 p.m. US Eastern Time, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to...
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking...
