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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.

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

The Great Binge: An Unsettling Reality Check of the Drug-Fuelled "Belle Epoque" - Messy Nessy Chic

This week, Michael Taylor, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Albany, returns to offer an interesting argument about the longterm impact of the M1 Garand, the US army’s extremely successf…

In 2020, our everyday routines shifted dramatically, but over the past few years, it’s felt like things are getting back to where they were. How back are we?

Latest DOE numbers: electricity costs 3.3 times more than natural gas

The two big EU attempts to overly regulate the internet are starting to go into effect. The Digital Services Act (DSA), along with all its associated problems, is about six months ahead of the Digi…

Have you noticed there are a lot of different license plates you can choose for your car these days? So did Jon Keegan; he scrap

A local business owner used damaging chemicals to turn multiple swimming pools yellow and green over the course of the summer, according to the police, who said he was likely “pranking people.”

Kevin Carson on the broader concerns campaign finance debates point to.

A judge's order in the Georgia Trump trial leads to some big numbers.

Today on TAP: Let’s not confuse the corporate interest with worker interests.

Why has the media gone all in on small time scofflaws when organized financial crime is robbing people straight from their paychecks?

The mainstream media have abandoned the pursuit of objectivity and truth.

MIT economists Arnaud Costinot and Iván Werning discuss the potential impact a proposed "robot tax" could have on automation and jobs.