Caroline Haskins

PredPol uses an algorithm based on earthquake prediction to “predict crime.” Academics say it’s simplistic and harmful.

YouTube structurally prioritizes audience feedback, which can drive content-makers to promote conspiracy theories or hate.

Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the worst about your neighbors—and people of color are once again being harmed.

PG&E is asking for a bailout. Instead, we should make that utility, and all utilities, public assets.

Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol.

TikTok is not immune from engagement-hungry algorithms that dominate the internet as we know it.

Antarctanax shackletoni, or the “Antarctic king,” is an iguana-sized ancestor to dinosaurs and modern crocodiles.

According to the CDC, there’s a salmonella outbreak in 11 states that has been linked to contact with hedgehogs. Hedgehogs are cancelled.

Scientists found a carcass of the extremophile, microbial tardigrade a kilometer underground near an Antarctic lake.

Almost one third of a bat species population in Australia perished during a heat wave in November 2018.

Climate change is changing our wind patterns, which is strengthening waves traveling across the earth's surface.

Digital archives show that the page was deleted after the union's president supported building a border wall with Donald Trump in the White House Briefing Room.