Surreal Drone Photos Transform America Into a Roller Coaster
Texas never looked so nauseating. The post Surreal Drone Photos Transform America Into a Roller Coaster appeared first on WIRED.…
Don’t Worry, There’s Plenty of Great Iron Fist—It’s Just Not on Netflix
Those arguments that Iron Fist “had” to be white to support canon? Turns out they’re not all that airtight. The…
Facebook’s Big ‘First Step’ to Crack Down on Surveillance
Social networks are publicly recognizing a responsibility to restrict third-party data surveillance, but it’s a challenging role. The post Facebook’s…
Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Predict and Prevent Suicide
Doctors at research hospitals and even the US Department of Veterans Affairs are piloting new, AI-driven suicide-prevention platforms. The post…
Trump’s Trying to Chainsaw Nearly Every Environmental Program
Here’s an inventory of all the proposed cuts to US government environmental, energy, and climate programs. It goes way beyond…
Trump’s Budget Would Break American Science, Today and Tomorrow
By eviscerating federal funding of science, this proposed budget pays for a world where the only infrastructure is megacities connected…
Trump Can’t Quit His Wiretap Claims. That Won’t End Well
The Trump administration keeps doubling down on a surveillance story, even though it’s in their best interests to drop it.…
Trump’s Budget Is Awful if You’re a Worker, Great if You’re a Robot
To survive the automated future, humans need the programs the proposed budget would cut. The post Trump’s Budget Is Awful…
Obamacare Paved the Way for That Gattaca-Style Employer’s Law
A new Republican bill would loosen privacy protections for workers. And it would use parts of the Affordable Care Act…
That Deleted McDonald’s Tweet? Too Surreal, Even For Fast-Food Twitter
From surreal Denny’s to nihilist Arby’s, a journey through the deliciously dark underbelly of social media. (Mmm, underbelly.) The post…