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Straight Arrow Illustration/Getty Images Privacy 10m read 9/11 launched a new era of surveillance. 25 years later, AI is making it smarter Flock cameras and other controversial policing technologies grew out of the post-9/11 shift toward mass data collection.
Arnold Gold/Connecticut Post via Getty Images Aug 28 5m read Is college worth it? New census data offers answers, but access to that information is at risk
Antranik Tavitian for Straight Arrow Aug 28 9m read The bookseller using AI to battle back against Big Tech’s digitize-and-destroy campaign
@janie.b086 via TikTok Aug 27 7m read Audiences love this ‘Bama Rush’ influencer — does it matter if she’s AI?
Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress/via Getty Images Aug 27 6m read New York’s Rikers Island jails are supposed to close within a year. What happens when they don’t?
Getty Images Aug 26 9m read State fairs, celebrations of local artistry, are drowning in AI-generated art
ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP via Getty Images Aug 26 7m read US-Canada trade war threatens more than high prices
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Aug 26 17m read When should children get each vaccine dose? And who gets to decide?
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Aug 25 9m read You could pay for this article — or you could read it for free through a shady website. Inside the economics of news paywalls
Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Aug 25 8m read How much recess time do kids really need?
Universal History Archive/Heritage Images/Getty Images Aug 24 7m read If your art trained the AI, MIT says you may never be able to prove it
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Valentino Aug 24 9m read A vibe shift online? How tradwives’ ‘girlboss’ turns indicate a changing content market
Antranik Tavitian/Straight Arrow Aug 23 10m read How a sudden deportation cut short a Texas band’s big break
Keaton Peters/Straight Arrow Aug 22 8m read Property owners are in a standoff against Texas power expansion
Justin Paget/Getty Images Aug 21 7m read This company checks schoolwork for AI cheating. Now it wants to use students’ papers to train AI
Keaton Peters/Straight Arrow; Getty Images Aug 20 13m read How data centers became America’s favorite new villain — online and IRL
Krystal Nurse/Straight Arrow Aug 19 9m read Jake Lang’s Dearborn ‘crusaders march’ draws protests, Nazis
Todd Imholte Aug 19 8m read What happens when an apartment building is designed for people who can’t see
Getty Images Aug 18 15m read The evidence against plastic is mounting. But is it possible to cut it out of our lives?
New York Attorney General's Office via FOIL Aug 17 8m read Digital ads are flooded with ‘synthetic’ AI models. How one state is calling them out
