The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built
There is, Droogan says, an implicit violence in the theory, particularly when it’s filtered through a US perspective. American mainstream media, and Fox in particular, gives...
Ford Jump-Starts Its Attempt to Revive Detroit
For almost two decades after it opened in 1913, Michigan’s Central Station was a major stop on the nation’s interurban rail network. Then the private car...
Facebook Made BuzzFeed, Then Killed It
In his memo announcing the closure of BuzzFeed’s news operations, CEO Jonah Peretti acknowledged a grave mistake: He hadn’t worked out that Facebook wasn’t his friend. Peretti,...
ChatGPT Can Help Doctors—and Hurt Patients
“Medical knowledge and practices change and evolve over time, and there’s no telling where in the timeline of medicine ChatGPT pulls its information from when stating...
How the Streaming Era Turned Music Into Sludge
I woke up one day last year and realized I no longer listened to music. Instead I just listened to sludge—a blur of indistinguishable songs that...
Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data
A potential roadmap to pricing could come from Elon Musk, who this month hiked prices for access to Twitter data. They start at $42,000 per month for...
Apple wins appeal against UK antitrust probe into mobile browser dominance
Apple has handed the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority a major setback in its effort to regulate the tech giant. On Friday, the company won an...
NLRB says Activision Blizzard illegally surveilled employees during a walkout
Activision Blizzard is facing yet another complaint by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The labor agency has “found merit with several elements of the unfair...
The Internet Archive’s Literary Civil War
A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G. Koetl skipped out on a formative traumatic-shushing experience,...
Paris Fell in Love With Escooters. Now It Might Ban Them
Atop my escooter, I am a human in a city of apes. With my back straight, I tower above my fellow road-users who are hunched over...