Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa thinks the future of farming will be all-electric and powered by AI, and it starts with the company’s MK-V tractor.

As Missouri's new distracted driving law goes into effect, local law enforcement tackles the challenges that come with it.

Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet

An 8-year-old’s YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant’s ubiquity and handling of children’s data.

Both advocacy groups and political leaders tend to assume that misinformation persists on social media because the platforms are unwilling to get rid of it—a gross and unhelpful oversimplification. Some of the largest technology companies in the world spend tens of billions of dollars each year ...

New Jersey residents want to protect their community's rural character from a million-square-foot warehouse. But the local democratic process turns out to be complicated and – for some – suspiciously lacking in transparency.

The gig economy is an entire universe. What is it like working inside of it?

Jeffrey Fang was a ride-hailing legend, a top earner with relentless hustle. Then his minivan was carjacked—with his kids in the back seat.

Plus: Decades-old security flaws, a wave of startup layoffs, and multiple “thousand-year” rainfalls.

Many mass killings receive relatively little news coverage in the U.S.

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision depriving people of the right to abortion leaked last month, some have advised deleting period tracking apps to prevent that data from being used to target people seeking abortion care. But it’s useful to distinguish between the security and privacy threats that abortion seekers are actively experiencing now versus threats that may come in the future.

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