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An advertising partner of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon admitted that your smartphones and other devices can listen to everything you say for ad targeting.

Sonos' upheaval highlights the risks of closed systems in home audio. Here's how an open-source platform and universal speaker connectivity standard could benefit everyone.

Imagine an open-source, modular audio system with interchangeable cloud services. It's the audio system that consumers -- and our environment -- deserve.

Open-source brings much-needed clarity to the often black box of AI development Open-source brings much-needed clarity to the often black box of AI development

Research suggests that when we make a decision that takes into account other people's preferences, we feel a sense of reward or pleasure.

It all begins with CrowdStrike, a widely-used cybersecurity firm that bungled an update

🔥 Jun 29, 2024 - From The Anarchist Library - Introduction Making the shift to the consensus decision-making process might be the most important thing that we can do to build a democratic society. Consensus can give us the power we need to focus our society’s attention on improving education, making peace, providing universal healthcare and creating…

Just in case there was any doubt about how Jack Dorsey really feels about Bluesky, the former Twitter CEO has offered new details on why he left the board and deleted his account.

Microsoft said its Azure OpenAI Service must not be used "by or for" U.S. police for facial recognition purposes

They won’t answer them though. Because if they did, they would sound ridiculous.

They’re afraid to let students hear any explanation of inequality that doesn’t blame Black people themselves

Listening to electronic music makes neurons in our brain fire in time with the beat, which appears to alter our reaction time and sense of unity

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In 1967 Martin Luther King put Black people’s lives in this country into a mathematical formula:  Black people, said Dr. King, were 50% Americans.  In all

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They'll be identifying and eliminating any program requiring teachings of CRT by February 1.

Why do we struggle to do this?

What I am pleading for is an instinct towards village-mindedness; an instinct towards involving more people, not fewer.

“In Africa, they say that if one person gets sick, everybody is sick.

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People who deny the reality of systemic racism often end up proving the reality of the very thing they deny, especially in policing and the justice system