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Kickstarter Shuts Down Anime Streaming App That Seemed Too Good to Be True

07.13.21

By Gita Jackson
Tech

Kickstarter Settles Complaint That It Retaliated Against Union Organizer

10.06.20

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

Labor Board Finds Merit That Kickstarter Illegally Fired Union Organizer

09.10.20

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Games

How Games, Tech, and the Army Use Progressive Language as a Smoke Screen

09.04.20

By Lana Polansky
Tech

Chess World Accuses Company of Inventing Fake Employees Using Online Human Generator

03.06.20

By M. W. Bowman
Tech

Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election

02.18.20

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

Kickstarter Hired a Law Firm That Advertises ‘Maintaining a Union-Free Workplace’

02.12.20

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Games

It Only Took Minutes for Fans to Crowdfund a ‘Wonderful 101’ Revival

02.03.20

By Patrick Klepek
Tech

The Biggest ‘Clusterfuck’ in Kickstarter History Has Mercifully Come to an End

12.10.19

By Jason Koebler
Tech

A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying to Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter

11.12.19

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

This Board Game About Labor Revolts Is Protesting Kickstarter on Kickstarter

10.22.19

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

Kickstarter Workers Just Asked for Union Recognition Despite Pushback From CEO

10.02.19

By Lauren Kaori Gurley

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Music

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Dad Rock and Cigarette Mom genres often boil down to a simple concept: mainstream music that white people like. Here’s more of that.

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By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

North Carolina Man Must Pay Back the Millions He Acquired in First-Ever Streaming Fraud Case

Michael Smith used AI-generated songs and bots to scam millions from streaming platforms since 2017, and now must face the music.

4 hours ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

Norovirus Turns Cruise Ship Into a Poop-and-Vomit Wonderland. Here’s How This Keeps Happening.

Cruise ships may be affordable and accessible, but the trade-off is spending your vacation on a giant floating petri dish of disease.

7 hours ago

By Luis Prada
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Life

NASA’s Hubble Caught a Comet Breaking Up in Real Time, and the Images Are Wild

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers captured detailed images of a comet as it began to tear itself apart.

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By Luis Prada
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Life

Scientists Discovered a New Dinosaur Species in South Korea, and It’s Named After a Cartoon

Paleontologists in South Korea have identified a new dinosaur species and named it after a beloved Korean cartoon character.

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