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AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to sociology rushing to use techniques that they don’t always understand—causing a wave of spurious results. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company said it would prevent Russia-based users from uploading fresh content—but some new videos are still showing up on FYPs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After a local politician and two others were gunned down in the Philippines, posts supporting the suspect continue to gain traction on social media. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies that once battled to hire employees close to home are now turning to Latin America and other markets for talent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After news of a “pointless” pay increase spread, workers at three warehouses stopped work to demand higher wages as inflation and interest rates surge. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nurses, retail workers, and other employees can owe thousands of dollars just for quitting their job—or getting laid off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies are cutting costs by embracing remote setups, but what happens to the hubs they leave behind? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Compass Mining grew quickly during crypto’s halcyon days. Now, its customers and their thousands of mining machines are stuck. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An experiment shows that overworked judges turn to the crowdsourced encyclopedia for guidance when making legal decisions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta has allowed ads that include hate speech and calls for violence ahead of the country’s elections. But experts warn that a shutdown isn’t the answer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies are racing to cool down their servers as energy prices and temperatures soar. And the worst is yet to come. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Earnings season was dominated by two companies—both existential threats to their competition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To secure the land for its multibillion-dollar Downtown West development, the company has had to track down dozens of distant relatives of 19th-century landowners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Workers are calling on management to stop inflicting “traumatic” pressure on other workers trying to unionize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Men are more likely to buy electric vehicles, and carmakers are eager to diversify their base. But what will it take to close the gender gap? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Certain chips have caught up with demand, thanks to stockpiling and reduced consumer spending, but the semiconductor supply chain is still snarled up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Post within the two-minute window to share off-the-cuff photos with your friends—and the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Desperate people in the US and beyond are turning to an unregulated, cross-continental supply chain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future of public transportation in Stockholm—and beyond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The startup used regulatory loopholes and marketing to make nicotine cool. Now the FDA threatens to shut the company down, but new rivals are taking over. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ ecocredentials are thin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

No one will agree on what the metaverse is. But that's not stopping a coalition of big names in tech from designing the tools needed to build it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Abortion access groups and activists say they were dealing with algorithmic suppression long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The country wants electric vehicles to make up 40 percent of new cars sold by 2030—but first it has to figure out how to keep them charged. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Machines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A platform called Coworker has helped effect change for nearly a decade. As the coffee chain’s workers organize, its role has evolved in kind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The social media giant banned networks of fake accounts for promoting disinformation, spam, or propaganda—and kept the money it made from ads. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While suburban drivers can comfortably charge at home, those in low-income areas face higher prices—if they can find a station that works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tesla’s Autopilot and other automotive safety features are involved in plenty of car crashes. But thanks to spotty data, it’s still not clear how many, or what to do about it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Cryptocurrencies are behaving exactly like the rest of the stock market, but the faithful say that's no reason to jump ship. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Democrats are pumping the brakes on an ambitious Senate bill over long-shot concerns about content moderation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Arguments over whether Google’s large language model has a soul distract from the real-world problems that plague artificial intelligence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As the Russian siege drags on, Ukraine's media campaign has shifted from glorified myths to accounts of everyday bravery. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

From Avis-Budget to Hertz, traditional rental companies are struggling to restock their fleets. Now peer-to-peer upstarts are scrambling to fill the gap. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hundreds of prospective employees have been left adrift, including some who were counting on the position for their visas. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company has backed down on its proposal to address school shootings, but the damage was already done. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

At least one employee borrowed $100,000 from the company—and now has just 30 days to pay it back. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After filing for bankruptcy, Google could withdraw from Russia or antagonize the country's regulators from overseas. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Traditional hurdles stand in the way of ambitious plans to use imagery to help feed people, reduce poverty, and protect the planet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It might be years before flying cars take to the skies, but designers and engineers are already testing the infrastructure they’ll need to operate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Electricity costs more, Bitcoin is worth less. What can possibly go wrong? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The platform has a history of standing up to governments. Its billionaire suitor wants to follow their rules to the letter. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices