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Meta turned a blind eye to kids on its platforms for years, unredacted lawsuit alleges
A newly unredacted version of the multi-state lawsuit against Meta alleges a troubling pattern of deception and minimization in how the company handles kids under 13 on its platforms. Internal documents appear to show that the company’s approach to this ostensibly forbidden demographic is far more laissez-faire than it has publicly claimed. The lawsuit, filed
November 27, 2023
How Hurricane Ida turned a Louisiana nursing home into a living nightmare
Janice Verdin had no illusions about how bad a nursing home could get. Over her decade and a half as a nurse in south Louisiana, she’d worked in facilities infested with roaches and vermin, buildings where mold took over and staff worked under leaking ceilings. But she felt devoted to the residents, many of whom
November 2, 2023
‘That was sh*t, that was sh*t!’ -winning machine
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September 30, 2022
Kansas just turned out in record numbers to stop an abortion ban. Here’s what that could mean for other elections this year
All eyes were on Kansas this week as the state voted on a constitutional amendment that would have banned abortion access. The vote was anticipated to be close in the historically red state, which hasn’t voted for a Democratic president since 1964, with strong campaigning on both sides of the issue. But when polls closed…
August 4, 2022
AI turned a Rembrandt masterpiece into 5.6 terabytes of data
What’s better than enjoying an ingenious piece of art in person? Seeing it at 717,000,000,000 pixels on a smartphone or computer screen. Okay, that might not be completely true—but it’s certainly a distinctive experience, and one that we can thank state-of-the-art technology for. Last week the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam posted an AI-constructed, ultra-high-res image of…
January 11, 2022
Hats off to a farmer turned milliner creating sun-safe options for outback women
A cattle farm in rural Queensland is a far cry from the runways of Paris, but farmer Trudie Payne is matching it with some of the world's most recognised milliners to make hand-crafted hats from her property in Eidsvold.Key points:A skin cancer scare inspired a cattle farmer to make sun-safe hats for outback women472 Australian…
January 4, 2022