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This Labor Day, workers' rights activists reflect on the Fight for $15 moment, which sprung up roughly a decade ago. Many states still pay sub-living wages.

The lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars are marred by child labor and environmental concerns. Some say plain old sand is the solution.

Recent studies have shown teens are more susceptible than adults. It’s a problem researchers, teachers and parents are only beginning to understand.

I use data for income inequality to show that billionaires are socially made.

Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.

In April 2022, the United States launched its “Declaration for the Future of the Internet.” It asserts that human rights and democratic values must remain central to future technological developmen…

Austerity has never worked for anyone but the very rich. This is a historical fact.

A new survey of tech workers from Qualtrics shows that Gen Xers are less motived by their jobs than their millennial or Gen Z counterparts.

Chuck Norris was a karate legend, then an action star, and then ... memes. So many memes. This is the hilarious story of how Chuck Norris Facts melted the internet in 2005 and how its creator is now using AI to shake up the world in even bigger ways.

It is not disputed that current AI is bringing more intelligence into the world, with more to follow yet.  Of course not everyone believes that augmentation is a good thing, or will be a good thing if we remain on our current path. To continue in aggregative terms, if you think “more intelligence” will be […]

We hold businesses strongly liable for lies, and even for truths that authorities call misleading. Ordinary people, in contrast, are mainly held liable only for lying under oath in court, lying to police officers, lying for clear financial gain, and when a factual claim defames one person to another sufficiently carelessly. Otherwise we are

In its final season, the FX on Hulu comedy leaves a promising blueprint for TV’s future.

Market researcher Clotaire Rapaille was interviewed for an episode of Frontline on advertising and marketing back in 2003. I like

Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.

Even outcasts should be able to subsist on their own land.

In theory, yes; in practice, perhaps soon.

It's hard to argue that providing a pipe constitutes a speech act.

Only when necessary to protect five basic internet rights.

An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…

Despite lots of fretting, the evidence for one is incredibly flimsy.

What they’ve found directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s conclusions.

Wage theft costs workers billions, and a new tool may help them avoid sticky-fingered employers in New York State.

In a lecture given in 1924, German mathematician David Hilbert introduced the idea of the paradox of the Grand Hotel, which might

Yesterday, there was yet another school shooting on a college campus, this time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Momentous week of GOP debate, Trump's arrest gets "horse race" coverage when the story's not about an election, but authoritarianism.

Soon, around 70% of jobs in Washington state will require some education beyond high school. Yet the rate of homegrown high school grads earning credentials here is on the decline, a new report says. …

A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.

Imagining the future we want is the first step towards creating it, says Rob Hopkins – time traveller and imagination activist