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If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?

Catherine Buni

Oct 11, 2021 5:45 AM

Why the Department of Energy Is Spending Millions to Get Rid of Scientific Data

James Dinneen

Oct 08, 2021 9:00 AM

Why (and How) You Should Be Using Rapid COVID Tests

Emily Oster

Oct 08, 2021 5:45 AM

Why It’s No Laughing Matter That a Senator Asked Facebook to “Commit to Ending Finsta”

Jeff Kosseff

Oct 07, 2021 12:53 PM

Is a Hospital to Blame if a Patient Dies During a Ransomware Attack?

Josephine Wolff

Oct 07, 2021 11:21 AM

Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less

Louis Barclay

Oct 07, 2021 9:38 AM

Mark Zuckerberg’s Hands Are All Over the Latest Facebook Scandal

Aaron Mak

Oct 06, 2021 5:43 PM

How the WhatsApp Outage Hurt Small Businesses in India

Safina Nabi

Oct 06, 2021 11:36 AM

The Facebook Whistleblower Finally Got Republicans to Stop Yapping About Anti-Conservative Bias

Aaron Mak

Oct 05, 2021 5:07 PM

National Security Language Is Stuck in the Cold War

Josh Kerbel

Oct 05, 2021 11:08 AM

Facebook Knows Instagram Is Harming Teens. But Is Anything Going to Change?

Lizzie O’Leary

Oct 04, 2021 10:00 AM

All Surveillance Devices Should Come With Cup Holders

Andrés Martinez

Oct 02, 2021 10:00 AM

New Laws in California and NYC Aim to Keep Delivery and Warehouse Workers From Having to Pee in Bottles

Yana Pashaeva

Sept 30, 2021 1:01 PM

The Least Responsible Social Network Isn’t Facebook

Aaron Mak

Sept 29, 2021 3:29 PM

What It’s Like to Translate TV Subtitles

David Buchanan

Sept 29, 2021 1:54 PM

A Brief History of Adorable, Vaguely Creepy Robot Dogs

Aaron Mak

Sept 28, 2021 5:46 PM

I Tried Using a Time-Tracking App to Work Less

Mia Armstrong

Sept 28, 2021 10:00 AM

We Need to Rethink Our COVID Testing Priorities

Lizzie O’Leary

Sept 27, 2021 12:06 PM

Who Wins When the State Appropriates Self-Defense Technologies Developed by Communities?

Vivette García-Deister

Sept 25, 2021 9:01 AM

Read a New Short Story About a Future in Which a Government Tracks All of Its Citizens

Andrea Chapela

Sept 25, 2021 9:00 AM

There’s a Better Way to Use Instagram (and Even Facebook)

The Grimmest Lesson of the Massive Facebook Leak

Why Wikipedia Banned Several Chinese Admins

The Facebook Crisis in India Might Be the Worst Facebook Crisis of All

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