Strong earnings push Microsoft toward a new milestone.

Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.

Amazon employs a system that not only tracks warehouse workers productivity, but can automatically fire them for failing to meet expectations.

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The Markup appears to be facing a staff revolt — and its financial backers may be reconsidering their support — following the firing of editor-in-chief Julia Angwin. When the site was announced last fall, it was backed by $20 million from Craigslist founder…

Shanghai, one of the planet’s most populous urban centres, is growing at breakneck speed. But thanks to decades of planning, they’re doing it right. The city is destined for global supremacy

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When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history.

We present a quasi-experiment to investigate whether, and to what extent, sleep deprivation impacts the performance of novice software developers using the agile practice of test-first development...

How it has sidestepped the mistakes made by its younger, brasher Big Tech brethren.

The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they have kept Google from seeing it.

Unsealed warrant in Massachusetts adds to growing privacy debate

After multiple rare cancers have been diagnosed in Waycross, Georgia, the city grapples with a profound question: What if the industries that gave us life are killing us?