1776 was a watershed year, and not only because America’s Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in July, igniting a political revolution that sent democracy sweeping across the globe ...

A jury in California agreed with a plaintiff who argued that Meta and Google, two social-media giants, designed their platforms to be addictive. That opens the floodgates to more litigation and ...

In a landmark decision, a California jury has awarded $3 million to a 20-year-old woman who claimed Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube intentionally design their platforms to be addictive and ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

Atlanta’s Inspector General confirmed six Watershed Department employees abused their authority by illegally detaining and searching colleagues over a missing wallet. Discipline for the six employees ...

Six Atlanta Watershed officials committed abuse and met the legal elements of felony false imprisonment. Managers detained five employees for three hours and used a police officer to prevent them from ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will receive $500,000 in federal funding to enhance public access and recreational opportunities along the state’s portion of the Delaware River and its ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

After 13 years of offering high-profile and up-and-coming country music artists at The Gorge Amphitheater, Watershed Music Festival has announced it will not host a festival in 2026. The decision to ...