The ‘chemical imbalance’ trope is appealing but dehumanising, and has heightened stigma towards people with mental illness

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A program in Stockton, California—historically, the foreclosure capital of the U.S.—has been providing an unconditional five hundred dollars per month to a group of residents.

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While the social media giant says it opposes voter suppression, the data shows a stark picture: Nearly half of all top-performing posts that mentioned voting by mail were false or misleading.

On Wednesday, a hack involving high-profile Twitter accounts led the service to suspend the activity of verified users. It was great.

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Mozilla has launched its VPN service out of beta, and it's available now in six markets on Android and Windows for $5 a month.

Chip titan says 5G demand will fuel growth despite US export ban and pandemic

You can’t say you didn’t see it coming.Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history, it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago.Beginning…