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Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along
Johnsen’s experience is common in the pro-choice activist community. Most of the people who spoke to WIRED say their content…
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The Fight Over Which Uses of Artificial Intelligence Europe Should Outlaw
In 2019, guards on the borders of Greece, Hungary, and Latvia began testing an artificial-intelligence-powered lie detector. The system, called…
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The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
Lithium projects outside China have been at the mercy of the markets, slowing and expanding as the price of lithium…
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Worker-Owned Apps Are Redefining the Sharing Economy
To compete with well-funded private platforms, active government and municipal intervention is vital for platform cooperatives. This could be through…
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China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future
“China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric…
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China Is Tightening Its Grip on Big Tech
China’s tech regulation goals are often in direct contradiction to what the rest of the world is trying to do.…
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This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language to Be a Better Coworker
Sales of workplace robots worldwide are growing steadily after a recent slowdown in growth due to the pandemic, according to…
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The Rise and Precarious Reign of China’s Battery King
The headquarters of battery giant CATL tower over the coastal Chinese city of Ningde. To the untrained eye, the building…
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China Built Your iPhone. Will It Build Your Next Car?
Rumors of an Apple electric car project have long excited investors and iPhone enthusiasts. Almost a decade after details of…
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Inside DALL-E Mini, the Internet’s Favorite Artificial Intelligence Meme Machine
On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation…
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