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Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.

Data brokers sell inferences about consumers, essentially making predictions about their habits and tastes. A significant portion of the inferences are junk, experts say, and the problem can create serious downstream effects.

In 1904, the Imperial German Army began a campaign that nearly wiped out the Herero and Nama peoples in what was then German South West Africa, now Namibia, through fatal expulsions into the desert, incarceration in forced labor camps and outright murder.

What a miserable future we are currently living in.

The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.

Glorious made swapping batteries faster and easier (and more fun) in a $230 headset than its $400 competitors.

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

AI-generated sexual content, including nonconsensual deepfakes, is rapidly transforming teens' strange new world, a new survey emphasizes.

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea.

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”

The number of Arizonans getting SNAP benefits has fallen by about half in less than a year, a remarkable drop in nutrition aid that may preview the program’s future nationwide following a landmark law to limit assistance that President Trump championed last year.

"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"

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How Whole Foods went from local-sourcing pioneer to Amazon-owned chain, squeezing small suppliers and cutting worker benefits along the way. The full sourced story.

Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.

Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.