Digital Gems

She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

As Colorado Democrats defend the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Junction headquarters move, critics say it's been an "epic failure."

Death toll at 749, on course to pass high mark set in 2018, as pollution including nutrient runoff kills seagrass

The United States will target China with a new "strike force" to combat unfair trade practices, the Biden administration said on Tuesday, as it rolled out findings of a review of access to critical products, from semiconductors to electric-vehicle batteries.

The World Health Organization has implemented a new system to name variants of COVID-19 that use Greek letters instead of country names to avoid stigmatizing the regions

This Essay asserts that in the United States racial segregation has and continues to play a central evolutionary role in the inequalities we see reproduced and

Rising costs at its factories — an accelerating trend, new data showed — could trickle into the rest of the world economy.

Pandemic lockdowns ramped up home network usage. Deloitte’s Connectivity & Mobile Trends 2021 survey suggests that providers held up to the stress.

The new estimate reflects pandemic-relief efforts for borrowers and low repayment rates on the government’s $1.6 trillion portfolio.

A better reason to upgrade than maxing that 5GB.

Lower home appraisal values contribute to the wealth gap between white communities and communities of Black and Latinx people.

The number of workers holding two or more jobs has increased from 1996 to 2018. The Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics tracks the growth.

The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members from all over the world for more than three years.

Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech and their colleagues from the US and Germany have developed a new neural network that can reliably detect coronal holes from space-based observations. This application paves the way for more reliable space weather predictions and provides valuable information for the study of the solar activity cycle. The paper was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Scholars offer tips to help news outlets report accurately on scientists' work and hold the scientific community accountable for its failures.

Researchers urge newsrooms to present scientific errors and academic journal retractions as part of science's self-correction process.

Stephen Vaisey, Kevin Kiley Sociological Science March 22, 2021 10.15195/v8.a5 Abstract Recent work argues that changes in people's responses to the same question over time should be thought of as reflecting a fixed baseline subject to temporary local influences, rather than durable changes in respo...

We’re not going to find a set of fixed divisions that works across arenas — such as social attitudes, family behavior, and economic status.

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The inequalities Black women face have been a drag on both their bank accounts and on long-term economic growth for everyone– and were only exacerbated by COVID-19.

OK boomer, you may have money, but you’re not spending it.

Meet the executives who burn millions daily and enrich themselves while creating no real value

Constantly chasing more and more will make you miserable. The right goal gets you off the treadmill.

Cryptocurrency investors are beginning to think about the afterlife of their digital assets — and a burgeoning industry awaits them.

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, could easily be described as Earth's greatest light show. A phenomenon that's exclusive to the higher latitudes, has had scientists in awe and wonder for centuries. The theory of how the aurora is created has been speculated but never proven, until now.