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Facebook Parent Meta Removes China-Based Network Pushing COVID-19 Misinformation
Meta said it removed a China-based network of more than 500 Facebook accounts
Arctic Rain Will Soon Be More Common Than Arctic Snowfall
When rain—not snow—fell on the highest point of Greenland’s ice sheet this August for the first time in recorded history, it was considered a worrying anomaly related to the regions’ changing climate. Now, a new study led by Canada’s University of Manitoba and co-authored by scientists at the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center…
Elizabeth Holmes Accuses Ex-Lover, Business Partner of Abuse
The Theranos founder said she fell under Sunny Balwani's sway after she dropped out of Stanford in 2003 to found the company
Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., is stepping down, ceding the position to the company’s chief technology officer Parag Agrawal. The move is effective immediately, though Dorsey will stay on the board of the social media company until his term expires in 2022, Twitter said in a statement Monday. “I’ve…
How Germany’s New Government Plans to Be the Greenest One Yet
"We have a whole roadmap for a post-fossil future based on renewable energy"
It’s Time for a New Progressive Era, With Informal Workers at the Center
Informal work is the essential service that billions of people give to a world that barely notices.
Why This Dating App Is Paying All Employees an $80,000 Minimum Salary
The decision is similar to that taken by the Dan Price, the CEO of credit card processing startup Gravity Payments
How Your Post-Thanksgiving Diet Could Help Save the Planet
Cutting out meat and dairy can shrink your carbon footprint along with your waistline
Nuclear Fusion Finally Finds Its Place in the Sun
One of my favorite bar signs is the one that promises “Free beer tomorrow.” That’s how I’ve always thought of nuclear fusion—a (theoretically) cheap, pollution-free and inexhaustible energy source, the promise of which has pretty much been a decade away ever since the technology was first tested 70 years ago. When “nuclear energy” is discussed,…
Austria’s Plan to Make COVID-19 Vaccines Compulsory Is Dividing Citizens — and Experts
“It deepens the chasm in our society”
The Leftist Millennial Who Could Lead One of Latin America’s Wealthiest and Most Unequal Countries
Former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, is competing against the deeply conservative José Antonio Kast
Meet the Women Leading the Global Fight for Workers’ Rights in the Informal Economy
The pandemic has hit informal workers particularly hard