An exhibit at the X Media Art Museum, a digital arts and new media museum in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 29, 2022. The exhibit combined the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci with artificial intelligence to create new interpretations of the...
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Alex Jones lost a $1 billion trial. Why is Infowars still streaming?
Alex Jones outside the Sandy Hook trial in Connecticut, September 2022. | Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images Jones says his enemies want him off the air. US bankruptcy law is on his side, for now. Last week, a Connecticut jury ruled that...
Silicon Valley is starting to cave to European regulators
Meta’s headquarters are in California, but it still has to follow the United Kingdom’s competition laws. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The United Kingdom is forcing Meta to sell off Giphy. Who’s next? If Big Tech didn’t know it already, it...
The Amazon Labor Union suffers another loss but vows to keep fighting
Amazon warehouse workers protest at an Amazon air hub in California in October 2022. | Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Amazon workers at the ALB1 warehouse near Albany, New York, voted 406-206 against unionizing. The Amazon Labor Union...
Women in leadership are leaning out (and into a better job)
There aren’t that many women at the top — and they’re leaving. | iStockphoto/Getty Images Leaders are leaving at the highest rate on record. The pandemic has been especially difficult for women at work. And now, after years of hardship, women’s...
You can make more money if you know how much your job is worth
Coming soon to a job posting near you: Knowing how much it pays. | Getty Images New pay transparency laws will help, but they still aren’t enough to eliminate the pay gap. You wouldn’t rent an apartment or even buy...
Welcome to Netflix — with ads
Netflix’s Stranger Things. | Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s new cheaper subscription has ads, but it doesn’t have all of its shows and movies. What does an ad look like on Netflix? For years, that was a trick question, because Netflix...
How the world has gotten much worse for animals
Pigs on a farm in Cambodia. Over the last 60 years, meat production has exploded in high-income countries and is projected to do the same in low-income countries in coming decades. | Universal Images Group/BSIP via Getty Images A new...
The race to stop weaponized robots
A group called Stop Killer Robots, seen here in Berlin, Germany, in 2019, has urged against the development of autonomous weapons. | Wolfgang Kumm/DPA/AFP via Getty Images A group of robot makers recently declared that they’re against the “weaponization” of...
Amazon workers in upstate New York are fighting for a crucial second union win
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images The election at the ALB1 Amazon warehouse near Albany could prove the Staten Island union victory was no fluke. Heather Goodall says the quest to unionize an Amazon warehouse in upstate New York, where a union election...