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On the day Layla got out of prison and back to her home in Georgia, she was told she would need to purchase a…
Dhruv Mehrotra
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Apr 3 2020
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On December 31, few Americans had ever heard the word “coronavirus.” It was unfathomable that in cities like…
Apr 1 2020
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On Sunday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he’d given the NYPD permission to issue fines of up to $500…
Mar 25 2020
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The covid-19 pandemic has changed the world, grinding to a halt increasingly large geographic areas and portions of…
Mar 19 2020
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While Amazon has banned more than a million fraudulent products claiming to cure or protect customers from the…
Mar 17 2020
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For many people in the U.S. who fear they’re already sick with covid-19, the past few weeks have been a confusing…
Mar 16 2020
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As if we needed any more evidence that the world is a psychedelic hellscape, RuPaul—yeah, that RuPaul— and his…
Mar 12 2020
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Hate forums and social media platforms have likely made it easier for atomized white supremacists and neo-Nazis to…
Feb 27 2020
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A face recognition app used by thousands of law enforcement agencies, which has drawn considerable scrutiny in past…
Jan 28 2020
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The workers of Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s on-demand micro-task platform, say they have encountered mutilated bodies,…
Dec 27 2019
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Ring and its parent company, Amazon, are facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations of negligence, invasion of…
Dec 9 2019
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As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security…
Oct 31 2019
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Oct 16 2019
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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the latest game from the company behind Pokémon Go, lets players harness the magic of…
Oct 8 2019
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The grammar on Wikipedia’s Holocaust Denial page didn’t fix itself. Someone, perhaps finished with their paperwork…
Aug 26 2019
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In July, an Uber driver we’ll call Dave—his name has been changed here to protect his identity—picked up a fare in a…
Jul 1 2019
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Uber changed how its surge pricing works last year. Not for riders, but for drivers. The changes have resulted in…
Jun 27 2019
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Apr 8 2019
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To weary enthusiasm, Facebook announced last month it would ban white nationalists and white separatists from the…