Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup. The deal signals the e-commerce giant's interest in doorstep delivery.

The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out…

Native CDFIs provide lending services in rural areas that are often banking deserts

An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety.

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic...

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The key ways that concentration camps get shut down.

Steven B. Katz, The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust, College English, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Mar., 1992), pp. 255-275

YouTube is ready to start testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. using artificial intelligence to distinguish between adults and minors based on their viewing habits.

Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse.

Tyron Garner, a plaintiff in a landmark U.S.

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.