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Controversial policy proposals such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) are making headway across the country, but there are other ways to help protect young people in the digital world

Brian Merchant is a tech reporter, and he’d been covering the industry for years when he started to notice a term that kept coming up. Especially when he wrote a story that was critical of tech, he’d be accused of being a “Luddite.” Like most people, Brian knew at least vaguely what the term “Luddite”

The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.

Two centuries after the Luddites revolted against an unjust technological disruption, automation is still pushing workers to the edge.

At its core, the strategy is built on the idea that “the library makes a difference in people’s lives and in the greater community." All branches of the Seattle Public Library closed this past Tuesday for a city-wide staff meeting. The organization was brought together to review the system’s new Strategic Direction. SPL is engaged

Economists are rethinking East Asia’s “miracle” as the Washington Consensus falters.

The science of the perfect second

The pandemic. The mass shootings. Insurrection. Trump. We've been through so much. What if our entire national character is a trauma response?

How baby boomers did everything they could to leave behind a dystopia.

Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.

A recent study found that AI-bots could talk to each other, reflect, and identify software bugs.

When everything we do online is data to be harvested, resignation is easy. But there’s a better way to think about digital privacy.

Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

Today, a brief history of my painful experience of trying to keep paying for my Disney Bundle. I’ve been a pre-launch subscriber to Disney+ and a paying sub of Hulu, without ads, since before D+ launched. In other words, I am the sucker they all love and desire.

With Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele, and a credulous Michael Lewis at the zenith of crypto hype.

The Disney-Charter deal is an admission of doom.

Rural hospitals are on precarious financial footing.

Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned to create the World Trade Center after gaining notoriety for his design of the 1962 World's Fair pavilion.

The current and former senators and former national security adviser were among 21 people who ultimately were not charged in the election interference case.

Elon Musk gave Ukraine access to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet at the outset of Russia’s invasion of the country, but the erratic billionare was soon talking privately with Vladi…

In the US, white men have long had the power to make decisions about women’s reproductive health care. Those decisions have often been especially harmful to Black women.

When California unanimously passed S.B. 156 in 2021, we embarked on a multi-year, multi-billion dollar endeavor to bring affordable, 21st-century fiber to every Californian. Done correctly, this nearly $7 billion investment—further supplemented by $ 1.8 billion in federal funding—would help...

Fifty years ago, two mayors took vodka shots atop the Space Needle — inspiring a sister-city connection that has outlasted the Soviet Union.