Digital Gems

Declaring that “this pandemic is over,” the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a resolution to opt out of further Tri-County public health orders beginning Friday.

Three members of the seven-person executive team are stepping away from their roles, setting off speculation over what issues, if anything, prompted the moves

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

Getting past the cult of Genius and the bleakness of capitalist futurism.

The alternative to Venmo has become ubiquitous in rap lyrics. How did that happen?

Backed by Uber and Amazon, Aurora Innovation has a plan to win the self-driving race.

Whether it's the Oura Ring or the Superhuman app, we smash that buy button and say "This time it will be different." But it never is.

Some have regrets over unfinished business. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a relief.

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll. The pressures that mothers of young children (defined throughout as having a child under the age of 13 in the household) have faced over the course of the CO…

Let’s stop pretending that bills denying trans kids health care are something other than bigotry that will get children killed.

"When men speak up, they also foster awareness and acceptance about gender inequity as a shared problem, not a special interest."

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Our struggle to value caregiving has capitalist roots, but changing economic policy starts with dismantling the idea of caregiving as the altruistic woman’…

[There is substantial evidence of the potential for class bias in the use of standardized tests to evaluate college applicants, yet little comparable inquiry considers the written essays typically

Faculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. than the general population

The MGGG Redistricting Lab, which is affiliated with the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, grew out of an informal research collective called the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group.

We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with Dr. Timnit Gebru, who was terminated from her position as Staff Research Scientist and…

Can Google be trusted to evaluate its own AI?

A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform

It reportedly isn’t sure who to send the notifications to.

A pivot to holding more inventory, rising warehouse rents and Amazon's decision to limit its fulfillment service all played a role.

"It’s almost like it’s OK to get help."

In an important test, the ARRW missile didn't launch from the B-52 bomber carrying it.

Apple's CEO is clear that he isn't making decisions based on what's best for Facebook, but for Apple and its customers.

I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family.

Nearly a third of the nurses who've died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.

In New Jersey, Covid-19 has disproportionately killed Latino men under 50. Apart from the economic and social fallout, the numbers raise questions about vaccine equity and who's at risk.

As quickly as those gains were erased, it could take much, much longer for them to return.

Chad Richison was awarded compensation valued at $211 million last year, but at the pay package’s core is an award of restricted shares that could wind up adding more than $2 billion to his fortune over the next decade.

Median pay for the chief executives of more than 300 of the biggest U.S. public companies reached $13.7 million last year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.