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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
Earnings season was dominated by two companies—both existential threats to their competition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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