Seventeen years ago, Chinese authorities abducted one of a set of twins and sent her to an orphanage.

The culture industry of the late-capitalist era has metastasized to such a degree that even resistance is easily co-opted by the market and what passes for criticism circulates in forms pre-packaged for consumption. In an environment saturated in social media…

A novel twist on medical tourism to avoid the high cost of U.S. health care saves an employer money and even earns the patient a bonus.

Back in June, the Huntington Park Police Department in California announced the newest addition to the force: A 400-pound security robot dubbed “HP RoboCop.” According to recently released materials, the agency is paying $8,000 a month for the robot, which…

As Huawei has come under increasing scrutiny over the last several months, the question of who really owns and controls it has come to the fore. Huawei calls it

Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes.

In the Czech Republic, one artistic intervention made the invisible visible, by laser "tagging" a coal-fired power plant with the damage it does to our planet's fragile climate.

Deepfakes have the scary ability to put words in other people’s mouths and make world leaders appear to have completely different views.

Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours

Colin Marshall looks at Korea's high suicide rate and low birth rate.

The San Francisco-based ride-sharing giant is turning away some job candidates, citing a "hiring freeze."

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a thousand bots screaming from a human face – forever (apologies to George Orwell). As U.S. policymakers

Claudia Dreifus: Who were some of your influences in those early years? Ira Glass: Roland Barthes. At college, we were assigned Barthes’s S/Z , which made me understand what I could do in radio. In S/Z, Barthes takes apart a short story by Balzac, line by…

Company records show an action plan that includes promoting certain search results and targeting book reviews

Turn off and drop out

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

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Electronic creativity has always embraced futurism - not uncritical futurism, but visionary imagination that leads out of apocalypse and dystopia. So there's no time like the present for someone like Buckminster Fuller.