Why can’t tech fix its gender problem?
A full decade has passed since Ellen Pao filed a sexual discrimination suit against her employer, the legendary Silicon Valley
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Tech policy
The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online
I learned on a liveblog that I had lost the right to have an abortion. When the United States Supreme
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Corruption is sending shock waves through China’s chipmaking industry
China’s chipmaking industry descended into chaos last week, with at least four top executives associated with a state-owned semiconductor fund
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A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.
Imagine you are working on your novel on your home computer. It’s nearly finished; you have already written approximately one
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The secret police: A private security group regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors
When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in
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China wants to control how its famous livestreamers act, speak, and even dress
For Zeng, a young Chinese woman, an hour scrolling Douyin, the domestic version of TikTok, has become a daily ritual.
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The US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. What does that mean?
The Supreme Court has ruled to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 legal decision that enshrined abortion as a
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The Download: China’s possible surveillance sanctions, and hacking locusts
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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The world’s biggest surveillance company you’ve never heard of
You may never have heard of Hikvision, but chances are you’ve already been captured by one of its millions of
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