Body cameras were supposed to hold police accountable. So why is police violence still rising? Why are cops almost never convicted using body cam footage? And why are so many people now demanding that ...

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Is AI really a massive bubble waiting to burst, or are we underestimating how durable the AI boom actually is?

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Vast swaths of the American public are against AI, and as Silicon Valley CEOs attempt to shift the narrative there are signs that they’re going to have to do a lot more than simply change the way they ...

There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

Are we living through the dawn of permanent, personalized surveillance? Kylie Jenner is the face of Meta’s new AI smart glasses and suddenly, influencers are declaring a “hot surveillance summer,” ...

Today, a new Pew Research Center survey was released that found that nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (56%) support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites aka total and complete ...

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Last week, Pump.fun, a platform where you can buy and trade meme coins, launched Pump Fun GO, a new service where you can “pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING.” Users can create and complete on bounties “for ...