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For decades, telecom companies have known that lead in their networks posed risks to workers and could leach into the environment.

Before cellphones and the internet, our after-work lives were so rich and productive that you'd barely believe it.

In a recent article written for Slate, journalist Dan Kois recounts the shock his younger coworkers expressed when they discovered that he had, earlier in ... Read more

Why some AI experts are beginning to worry about the apocalypse.

This announcement comes after the Supreme Court dismissed the President's student loan plan.

Imagine being a boy today . The average boy is behind girls at every level of education. Boys are more likely to have their schoolwork impacted by ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders. They are 16 times more likely than girls to find school difficult due to being colour blind. Boys are more likely

Today on TAP: Republicans’ (and old folks’) turnout eclipsed the Democrats’ (and young’uns’)—one reason why McCarthy is Speaker.

The tale of the Jersey Devil, a cryptid whose background moved from feudal byproduct to museum hoax to sports-team mascot in the span of about 250 years.

David Eastman thinks the 'Sovereign AI' approach, but for sectors not nations, is inevitable — which presents opportunities for devs.

Are men something more than emotionally malfunctioning women?

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US productivity growth has been disappointing since the 1970s. We propose and empirically explore the hypothesis that slow growth stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry’s success in innovation […]

How homeless people in California lost their homes, and how they cope.

"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking at cops, attacking people."

Find out how much an acre of land costs in every state. Decide where to buy land by comparing average price per acre and see how much land you can afford.

Learn about the gaming motivations of transgender and non-binary gamers, and the games that are particularly popular and unpopular among this cohort. Find out how their gaming profile is unique and not just a linear mixture of male and female gamers.

In a piece from January, Cory Doctorow outlined the enshittification lifecycle of online platforms: Here is how platforms die: Fi

We're facing 25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment for the whole world. You got a problem with that?

In 1997, Wired magazine published an article called The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (archived). The subtitle rea

It understands the value of education and manages its teachers well

The European Union published its proposal for a digital euro late last month, which will be issued by the European Central Bank (ECB) if it ...