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Jul 20, 2022 • 8min
Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix Its Worker Injury Problem
The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.
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Jul 19, 2022 • 11min
Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.
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Jul 18, 2022 • 10min
Escooter Rentals Aren’t as Green as You Think
Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ ecocredentials are thin.
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Jul 15, 2022 • 9min
The Digital Divide Is Coming for You
More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf.
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Jul 14, 2022 • 12min
Crypto’s Free Rein May Be Coming to a Close
Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities.
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Jul 13, 2022 • 8min
Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers
Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.
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Jul 12, 2022 • 7min
What, Exactly, Is the Metaverse Standards Forum Creating?
No one will agree on what the metaverse is. But that's not stopping a coalition of big names in tech from designing the tools needed to build it.
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Jul 11, 2022 • 10min
Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along
Abortion access groups and activists say they were dealing with algorithmic suppression long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Jul 8, 2022 • 9min
The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders.
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Jul 7, 2022 • 10min
The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.”
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