How US police use counterterrorism money to buy spy tech
Grant money meant to help cities prepare for terror attacks is being spent on surveillance…
The Download: a long covid app, and California’s wind plans
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“李老师”口述：如何成为推特上中国抗议信息的聚集地
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Uber’s facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts
One early evening in February last year, a 23-year-old Uber driver named Niradi Srikanth was…
I met a police drone in VR—and hated it
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A new app aims to help the millions of people living with long covid
A new app could help people with long covid cope with their condition by giving…
California’s coming offshore wind boom faces big engineering hurdles
This week, dozens of companies are expected to compete for the right to lease the…
The Download: circumventing China’s firewall, and using AI to invent new drugs
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The Download: Neuralink updates, and GPT-3 fixes
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