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Spain’s Elections Pit Gig Workers Against the Far Right | WIRED
The election sees Sumar and center-left PSOE facing off against the Popular Party, the traditional party of the right wing…
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A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys | WIRED
Instead that slogan says less about what the company does and more about why it’s doing it. Helsing’s job adverts…
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Threads Is the New Cool Hangout—for Brands
When prebiotic soda brand Olipop joined Threads, it didn’t post about the flavors it comes in or its claimed nutritional…
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Want to Win a Chip War? You’re Gonna Need a Lot of Water
The volume required can be huge. In the US, chip fabs use far less water than the agriculture and power…
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The Ukraine War Shows the US Military-Industrial Complex Isn’t Battle Ready
Typically, this money would be funneled primarily to so-called prime manufacturers, who are attractive to the Defense Logistics Agency, the…
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A Vast Untapped Green Energy Source Is Hiding Beneath Your Feet
Few people on Earth have reached closer to its center than Buzz Speyrer, a drilling engineer with a long career…
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The Secret Ingredient in Your Craft Beer? Gene-Edited Yeast
While the startup cofounders considered hoppy-tasting but hop-free beer potentially beneficial to brewers and the environment—as Denby said in a…
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Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced…
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Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace
Many repair shops, especially those who opt in and pay to be part of those certified networks, say they have…
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Startups Under Fire: The Remarkable Resilience of Ukraine’s Tech Sector
In February 2022, Ukraine’s tech sector was booming. Between 2016 and 2021, the country’s IT exports tripled to nearly $7…
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