Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
Companies are racing to cool down their servers as energy prices and temperatures soar. And the worst is yet to come. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 04, 2022•7 min
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Big Tech Can’t Stop Obsessing Over Apple and TikTok
Earnings season was dominated by two companies—both existential threats to their competition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 03, 2022•8 min
Why Google Sued the Descendants of a Railroad Tycoon and a Civil War General
To secure the land for its multibillion-dollar Downtown West development, the company has had to track down dozens of distant relatives of 19th-century landowners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 02, 2022•7 min
The Fallout From Apple’s Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
Workers are calling on management to stop inflicting “traumatic” pressure on other workers trying to unionize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 01, 2022•12 min
EV Makers Think They’ve Figured Out What Women Want
Men are more likely to buy electric vehicles, and carmakers are eager to diversify their base. But what will it take to close the gender gap? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 29, 2022•11 min
The Chip Shortage is Easing—But Only For Some
Certain chips have caught up with demand, thanks to stockpiling and reduced consumer spending, but the semiconductor supply chain is still snarled up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 28, 2022•7 min
BeReal Basics: How to Use the 'Unfiltered' Social Media App
Post within the two-minute window to share off-the-cuff photos with your friends—and the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 27, 2022•7 min
Abortion Pill Demand Is Driving an Underground Network
Desperate people in the US and beyond are turning to an unregulated, cross-continental supply chain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 25, 2022•10 min
Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s a Flying Ferry
An electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future of public transportation in Stockholm—and beyond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 22, 2022•8 min
Juul Nears Its Last Gasp—After It Hooked a Generation on Vaping
The startup used regulatory loopholes and marketing to make nicotine cool. Now the FDA threatens to shut the company down, but new rivals are taking over. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 21, 2022•12 min
Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix Its Worker Injury Problem
The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 20, 2022•8 min
Cruise's Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 19, 2022•11 min
Escooter Rentals Aren’t as Green as You Think
Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ ecocredentials are thin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 18, 2022•10 min
The Digital Divide Is Coming for You
More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 15, 2022•9 min
Crypto’s Free Rein May Be Coming to a Close
Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 14, 2022•12 min
Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers
Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 13, 2022•8 min
What, Exactly, Is the Metaverse Standards Forum Creating?
No one will agree on what the metaverse is. But that's not stopping a coalition of big names in tech from designing the tools needed to build it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 12, 2022•7 min
Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along
Abortion access groups and activists say they were dealing with algorithmic suppression long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 11, 2022•10 min
The Fight Over Which Uses of AI Europe Should Outlaw
A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 08, 2022•9 min
The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 07, 2022•10 min
China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future
The country wants electric vehicles to make up 40 percent of new cars sold by 2030—but first it has to figure out how to keep them charged. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 06, 2022•13 min
This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language
Machines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 05, 2022•7 min
Before Starbucks Baristas Had Unions, They Had Coworker Petitions
A platform called Coworker has helped effect change for nearly a decade. As the coffee chain’s workers organize, its role has evolved in kind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 01, 2022•10 min
Meta Made Millions From Ads That Spread Disinformation
The social media giant banned networks of fake accounts for promoting disinformation, spam, or propaganda—and kept the money it made from ads. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 30, 2022•6 min
EV Charging Costs Penalize Urban Drivers
While suburban drivers can comfortably charge at home, those in low-income areas face higher prices—if they can find a station that works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 28, 2022•8 min
No One Knows How Safe New Driver-Assistance Systems Really Are
Tesla’s Autopilot and other automotive safety features are involved in plenty of car crashes. But thanks to spotty data, it’s still not clear how many, or what to do about it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 27, 2022•7 min
Sure, Crypto Is Crashing, but Everything Is Perfectly Fine
Cryptocurrencies are behaving exactly like the rest of the stock market, but the faithful say that's no reason to jump ship. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 24, 2022•10 min
The Weak Argument Jeopardizing Tech Antitrust Legislation
Democrats are pumping the brakes on an ambitious Senate bill over long-shot concerns about content moderation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 22, 2022•10 min
LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap
Arguments over whether Google’s large language model has a soul distract from the real-world problems that plague artificial intelligence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 21, 2022•8 min
How Ukraine Is Winning the Propaganda War
As the Russian siege drags on, Ukraine's media campaign has shifted from glorified myths to accounts of everyday bravery. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 20, 2022•7 min
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