Shanghai’s lockdown tests China’s online grocery apps
But things started to take a downturn last year. Despite the hype and money, these companies struggled to make a
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Shanghai’s lockdown is boosting China’s grocery delivery apps, and why Russia’s invasion has stalled
1 Why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is falling apartIt doesn’t appear to be learning from the mistakes it’s made, and
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Minneapolis police used traffic stops and fake social media profiles to target communities of color
“Since 2010, of the 14 individuals that MPD officers have killed, 13 of those individuals were people of color or
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Read moreQuestions over a clean fuel startup, and Chinese lockdown censorship
Quote of the day “What else can we do? It’s just the state of life now.” —Galina, a plumbing saleswoman
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Chinese NFT platforms don’t want you to trade NFTs anymore
However, there’s always been a sense of uncertainty in the industry: as with all young tech creations that don’t fit
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The Download: Language-preserving AI, and hackers showed it’s frighteningly easy to breach critical infrastructure
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world
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The gig workers fighting back against the algorithms
In the Bendungan Hilir neighborhood, just a stone’s throw from Jakarta’s glitzy central business district, a long row of makeshift
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The Download April 19, 2022: Neo-colonial AI, and aging clocks
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How Bitcoin mining devastated this New York town
Economist Matteo Benetton, a coauthor of the paper and a professor at the Hass School of Business at the University
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