Erica Pandey
The AI resisters
Resistance to AI is bubbling up among some workers, students, coders, and creatives. Some are placing new value on work that's untouched by AI. Some AI resisters worry about its carbon footprint.
The no-phone childhood movement
Study after study has detailed the stress and anxiety kids and teens deal with as a result of smartphone and social media use. But smar
America's kids get an internet librarian
NewsGuard, a service that uses trained journalists to rate news and information sites, will become available to millions of public school students at the end of January 2022 through a partnership with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Kids increasingly turn to the internet when looking for homework help or doing research for school projects. But unlike books in a library or articles in a journal, online resources can be difficult to filter for quality and misinformation.
Amazon's treasure trove of data
When Amazon invited cities to compete for its second global headquarters a year ago today, it got reams of data from the 238 entrants — enough to learn details of the cities' future plans that a lot of their residents don't even know about. The information effectively provided Amazon with a database chock full of granular details about the economic development prospects of every major metropolitan area in the United States (and some in Canada).