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The Economy & Innovation

Three pigeons perched on a wire await a fourth flying in for a landing on August 31, 2016 in San Diego, California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

April Fools! Google's 2002 pigeon prank

Edward Wasserman, Richard Levenson, Victor Navarro - The Conversation
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Waging war on wage theft

Stephenie Overman - WhoWhatWhy
(Getty/David Becker)

How IoT could reduce traffic & pollution

Alistair Charlton - GearBrain
(DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)

Legalized betting changes sports culture

Derrick Clifton - ProPublica
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College in the Age of Climate Doom

Mark Healy
Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks during an Apple product launch event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park on March 25, 2019 in Cupertino, California. (Getty/Michael Short)

Silicon Valley: Pay us forever

Keith A. Spencer
FILE - In this Monday, April 25, 2016, file photo, a man sits behind the steering wheel of a Tesla Model S electric car on display at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing. Federal officials say the driver of a Tesla S sports car using the vehicle’s “autopilot” automated driving system has been killed in a collision with a truck, the first U.S. self-driving car fatality. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said preliminary reports indicate the crash occurred when a tractor-trailer made a left turn in front of the Tesla at a highway intersection. NHTSA said the Tesla driver died due to injuries sustained in the crash, which took place on May 7 in Williston, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) (AP)

How 5G is crucial for our smart future

Alistair Charlton - GearBrain
(Getty/wundervisuals)

ATV deaths top 15,000 threshold: report

Eli Wolfe, Myron Levin - FairWarning
FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 file photo, An engine and part of a wing from the 100th 787 Dreamliner to be built at Boeing of South Carolina's North Charleston, S.C., facility are seen outside the plant.  (Brad Nettles/The Post and Courier via AP, File) (AP)

Future of aviation will be automated

Stephen Rice, Scott Winter - The Conversation
New vehicles are seen at the Horizon Terminal in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Trump tariffs costing billions

Igor Derysh
"The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet" By James Griffiths (Getty/Zed Books)

Internet censorship spreads beyond China

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty Images)

(AP Photo, File)

Parents' guide to parental controls

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. saluting the US flag on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 lunar mission; "Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11" by James Donovan (Getty/NASA/Little Brown)

The inside story of the Apollo 1 tragedy

James Donovan
(Getty/Sean Gallup)

Kushner's rise could have been stopped

Bob Hennelly
FILE- In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, a Bangladeshi child works at a clothes-dyeing factory in Narayanganj, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new study by the London-based Overseas Development Institute found that thousands of Bangladeshi children who live in the capital's slums are working illegally for an average of 64 hours a week. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File) (AP)

Bangladesh worker safety in jeopardy

Michelle Chen - In These Times
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Airbus and Boeing's pact with China

Marshall Auerback - Independent Media Institute
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Student loans and "risk-sharing"

Kate Padgett Walsh - The Conversation
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Facebook reaches settlement with ACLU

Jack Gillum, Ariana Tobin - ProPublica
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, file photo, returned boxes of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 7 smartphones are placed at a shop of South Korean mobile carrier in Seoul, South Korea. On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, Samsung said it's considering bringing the recalled, fire-prone Note 7 back to market as a refurbished or rental phone after consulting with regulatory authorities and carriers and assessing local demands. Samsung killed the Note 7 phone after dozens of phones overheated and caught on fire. Samsung conducted extensive tests since then and has blamed multiple design and manufacturing defects in batteries made by two different companies. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File) (AP)

Consumer rights need enforcement

Anne Fleming - The Conversation
David Koch; Charles Koch (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

How billionaires use hate to divide us

Leo W. Gerard - Independent Media Institute

Podcast company Gimlet Media organizes

Julianne Tveten - In These Times
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (Getty/Alex Wong)

The Wilbur Ross I know

Tom Allon
Grand Hyatt workers and supporters strike outside of the Grand Hyatt in the Union Square area of downtown San Francisco, Nov. 5, 2009. (AP/Paul Sakuma)

Robert Reich: Why unions matter to you

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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