To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
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Sarah Connor, in hiding before the war
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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Disney CEO Bob Iger steps down in surprise announcement
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A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission
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A shot before last call: Capturing New Orleans’s vanishing Black bars
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Flat-earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in rocket ride above California desert
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ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels
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‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges US Congress to plan for recessions
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California state lawmaker introduces bill to create universal basic income of $1K a month
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America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill
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US Federal Communications Commission forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
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EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal
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Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
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Lambda School's misleading promises
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Abraham Galloway, spy for the Union
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Carl Cotton: Chicago's original black taxidermist
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Andrew Yang joins CNN as US political commentator
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Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' creates hygge away from home – the tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows
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How an AT&T lawyer helped monopolize cheerleading and induce US drug shortages
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Inside the Pentagon's secret UFO program
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Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to address climate change
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Boy Scouts of America file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits
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Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students
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My teenage life after leaving a cult
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American woman's high school class ring, which was lost in Maine in 1973, has been found in a forest in Finland
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Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements
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Why it's cheaper to have a baby in Finland than in the US
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The 'this is fine' bias in cable news
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In retrospect it seems hard to overstate the cultural damage done by South Park
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NASA selects four finalists for next Discovery mission
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Russia alarmed by US Air Force visit to Norwegian island of Jan Mayen – squadron visited the island in November to test the airfield
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Nevada culinary union lays into Sanders supporters after health care backlash
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DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers
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Department of Justice announces a 16-count superseding indictment against Huawei, four subsidiaries, and CFO Wanzhou Meng that includes charges of racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets
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McClatchy, second-largest local news company in the US, files for bankruptcy due to drop in print-based circulation and revenue along with massive pension obligations
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The difference between yams and sweet potatoes is structural racism
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A two-year investigation of the ties between a network of deceptive dating sites and Firefly Aerospace, a company selected by NASA for bidding on lunar payloads
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SpaceX is taking over the tiny village of Boca Chica
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US officials say Huawei has had the capability to secretly access telecom networks around the world for over a decade
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The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
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Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
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Dan Mason - Forever Nothing (2020)
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The Sprint/T-Mobile merger: A jump-the-shark moment for American antitrust?
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That time when the US government wanted Americans to use one dollar coins
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Periphery - Reptile (2019)
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How could we regulate biased/lying media outlets and aggregators without encroaching on good ones?
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates...
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates and media aggregators ranging from r/the_donald to r/chapotraphouse banning anyone who opposes them. Thing is, these are the most well known examples. How could we tell faulty media sources and aggregators apart from good ones in mass? Do you think that's possible?
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Highlights from ten years of observations of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
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