September 20, 2021 Everyone is hiring. Why is finding a job still impossible? Low-paying jobs that don’t come with benefits are increasingly not the types of jobs workers are eager to take. | Getty Images America’s broken…
September 18, 2021 AI’s Islamophobia problem Amanda Northrop/Vox GPT-3 is a smart and poetic AI. It also says terrible things about Muslims. Imagine that you’re asked to finish this sentence:…
September 17, 2021 Apple shut down a voting app in Russia. That should worry everyone. Russia pressured Apple and Google to remove the Smart Voting app from their app stores. | Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images Critics say Apple’s…
September 17, 2021 California is ending a rule that helped cause its housing crisis A duplex in the Jefferson Manor neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, on July 21, 2020. | Bonnie Jo Mount/Washington Post via Getty Images Gov. Newsom…
September 16, 2021 It’s getting harder for people to believe that Facebook is a net good for society Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Germany in 2020. | Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images Why the latest Facebook scandal might…
September 15, 2021 Rich people are going to space. So is product placement. The Inspiration4 mission, led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, will be the first all-civilian crew to enter Earth’s orbit. | Courtesy of Inspiration4/SpaceX The latest…
September 13, 2021 How Walgreens’ sloppy Covid-19 test registration system exposed patient data Walgreens’ Covid-19 testing appointment platform has some issues. | Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Millions of people got Covid-19 tests through Walgreens. Their information…
September 10, 2021 Epic’s win over Apple is actually an Apple victory The verdict in the Epic-Apple trial mostly went in Apple’s favor. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Epic Games may have won a small…
September 10, 2021 Silicon Valley wants you to know Theranos isn’t Silicon Valley Opening arguments for trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of the blood testing company Theranos, began this week. | Nick Otto/AFP via Getty…
September 9, 2021 *****’s SEC is ready to regulate cryptocurrency More people are investing in crypto like bitcoin — and the government is stepping up to regulate it. | Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images…