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Mark Beach / Fresco News / Reuters Can Uber Survive Without Self-Driving Cars?
After a high-speed crash in Arizona, the ride-hailing giant grounds its autonomous fleet.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Who Owns Your Face?
Advertising companies, tech giants, data collectors, and the federal government, it turns out.
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Reuters What Happens If Uber Fails?
Even if the ride-sharing service goes under, it won't necessarily set off a bubble-popping chain reaction.
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Screenshot from C-SPAN What Happens When the President Is a Publisher, Too?
With platforms like Twitter, Donald Trump is able to disrupt congressional hearings in real time.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Silent Victims of the GOP Health-Care Proposal
“Children are the largest single group of beneficiaries on Medicaid—and they don't vote.”
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Jon Nazca / Reuters Scientists Brace for a Lost Generation in American Research
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
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Rony Muharrman /Antara Foto / Reuters Our Cataclysmic Planet
How mass extinctions inform our understanding of human-caused climate change
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters The Fight Between Waymo and Uber Intensifies
After six weeks of brutally bad PR, the ridesharing giant is ratcheting up its defense.
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Getty Images The 9-1-1 Paradox
Emergency call lines in the United States rarely fail, yet they're more vulnerable than ever.
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Darren Staples / Reuters Car Wars
Inside the battle for the future of a technology that could really, truly change the world
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Library of Congress Lady Liberty’s Cloak of Darkness
Why technological failures are such handy metaphors
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Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters An Acoustic Throw-Back for the New York Knickerbockers
Madison Square Garden went partly silent Sunday night, and not because the Knicks are terrible.
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The White House / Reuters Why Is Trump Returning to Birther-Style Attacks on Obama?
Attempts to delegitimize Barack Obama are a classic page in the Trump playbook.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters Uber’s Secret Program Raises Questions About Discrimination
In digital environments, the right to refuse service can be made invisible. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Now You Can Use NASA's Volcano-Tracking Technology to Monitor Your Baby
Or your cat.
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Lucasfilm Ltd. / IMDB The Bounty Hunters Protecting Your Slack Account
Well-meaning hackers are identifying security flaws—and making bank.
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Library of Congress Why Do the Big Stories Keep Breaking at Night?
Even in the internet age, the rhythms of print publications drive the news cycle.
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Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey / NASA / JPL-Caltech Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters As Uber Melts Down, Its CEO Says He 'Must Fundamentally Change'
The ride-sharing giant’s full-blown PR crisis is getting worse.
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USGS / Reuters The Scary State of Volcano Monitoring in the United States
One of the most volcanically active countries in the world is not ready for a devastating eruption.
