Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data collected ...

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...

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For many people, an app malfunctioning is scarcely more than an annoyance. But for a Honduran immigrant living in Pennsylvania, a recent glitch elicited fears about the worst-case scenario: that it ...

Burglary and domestic assault in Minnesota. Selling meth and jumping bail in Kentucky. Driving without insurance in Arkansas. Disorderly conduct. Theft. Lying to a police officer. Unspecified “crimes.

Over the past six years, a little-known private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, has built an educational software empire that wields unseen influence over the educational journeys of tens of ...

Sources The Markup analysis of a 10 percent random sample of addresses served by AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon in each city; U.S. Census Bureau, Mapping Inequality Speed of base internet offer at $55 ...

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...

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It’s not for the needle-shy. The drugs are sold in vials, and users reconstitute the powder in sterile water, suck the substance into a syringe, stick the needle under their skin, and blast it into ...

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