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On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that 'more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use.' Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online.

The iconic silhouette returns now in a new reiteration

The scary future of digital gerrymandering – and how to prevent it.

Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, the veteran Russia watcher said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans can fight back.

The ‘centre’ has long been chasing the right on immigration politics.

While widening the scope of experiences and viewpoints on the bench to include that of a Black woman may lead to some positive outcomes for some people experiencing oppression (to the apparent chagrin of conservatives), it doesn’t erase the conditions that allow oppression to occur.

The image depicting a shoeless samurai walking an armored cat pops up on social media from time to time.

A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?

When you visit BuzzFeed, they record lots of information about you. Most websites record some information. BuzzFeed record a whole ton. I’ll start with the fairly mundane stuff, and then move on to one example of some slightly more scary stuff. First: The Mundane Bits Here’s a snapshot of what BuzzFeed records when you land on a …

Ads for wellness apps and bipolar treatments start to appear in your feed.

Target has perfected the technique of analyzing consumers' shopping habits to figure out who's pregnant. How can they send customers congratulatory coupons without freaking them out?

19 of Facebook's top 20 pages for American Christians are run by Eastern European troll farms overseas, internal documents leaked to MIT Technology Review

At the time, Campos’s “insurrectionary activity” piqued the interest of Crimson reporters because he had just been arrested for his alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on President Truman.

Law 116: In Puerto Rico, women were used as subjects for birth control trials and impelled to undergo sterilization. Today, Puerto Rican women still struggle for reproductive freedom.

For the first time in 17 years, we’ve completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of histori…

Why do people think these words sound especially beautiful?

Fashionable minimalism replaced plush opulence. That’s a recipe for commotion.

An introduction to conservas, the canned seafood delicacies beloved by the Spanish and Portuguese alike, with suggestions for types to try and how best to serve them.

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

The Web browser is 25 years old already. Find out more about the history of this invention than changed the way we access to information online in this report.

We need a more active role for governments and regulators.

Here are principles I think you can’t avoid: 1. Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a dealbreaker. 2. Change the intera…

What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. It is incomplete as the GMail word limit cut off the…

Read about Who Is Starwarsdinx From Tiktok? Real Name and Homophobic Controversy. Starwarsdinx apology.

Big technological shifts have always empowered reformers. They have also empowered bigots, hucksters, and propagandists.

“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”