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Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix Its Worker Injury Problem Jul 20, 2022

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The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms.

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Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco Jul 19, 2022

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In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers.

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Escooter Rentals Aren’t as Green as You Think Jul 18, 2022

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Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ ecocredentials are thin.

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The Digital Divide Is Coming for You Jul 15, 2022

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More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf.

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Crypto’s Free Rein May Be Coming to a Close Jul 14, 2022

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Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities.

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Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers Jul 13, 2022

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Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.

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What, Exactly, Is the Metaverse Standards Forum Creating? Jul 12, 2022

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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.

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Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along Jul 11, 2022

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Abortion access groups and activists say they were dealing with algorithmic suppression long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw Jul 08, 2022

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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.

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The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium Jul 07, 2022

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China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.”

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