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amazon

Bessemer Union Officially Challenges Amazon Warehouse Vote

The union that attempted to organize an Amazon warehouse facility in Bessemer, Alabama alleges the company engaged in illegal anti-union activities.
Aaron Gordon
4.19.21
WhatsApp

WhatsApp Spying Site Blames WhatsApp for Letting It Spy

A WhatsApp tracking site marketed to catching suspected cheating spouses blames WhatsApp for facilitating the service with its always-on online status feature.
Joseph Cox
4.19.21
Games News

How a 'Mortal Kombat' Fanboy Ended Up Writing the New Movie's Script

While his parents were getting divorced, Greg Russo spent a lot of time in arcades as a kid. Naturally, those arcades had a Mortal Kombat machine.
Patrick Klepek
4.19.21
trains

The U.S. Is Not Ready for High Speed Rail

The U.S. already has 140,000 miles of perfectly good regular train tracks. Let’s start with what we have.
Aaron Gordon
4.19.21
RACISM

‘Reprehensible’: United Nations Experts Condemn UK’s Race Report

“In 2021, it is stunning to read a report on race and ethnicity that repackages racist tropes and stereotypes into fact,” a UN panel said.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
4.19.21
Sport

Super League: Here's Why Everyone Is Shouting About a Breakaway Football League

The world's richest clubs like Real Madrid, Manchester United and Juventus want to make a closed-shop league that they themselves govern.
Simon Childs
4.19.21
South Africa

A Fire Gutted a Historic University Library. These Photos Show the Devastation.

The blaze, which started on South Africa's Table Mountain, spread down to the University of Cape Town and destroyed the institution's library.
Dipo Faloyin
4.19.21
qanon

A QAnon Gang Kidnapped an 8-Year-Old Girl and Planned More Abductions

QAnon survivalists in France posed as child welfare officials and abducted the child from her grandmother’s house.
David Gilbert
4.19.21
Coronavirus

A Journalist Got COVID and Died Live-Tweeting His Wait for a Hospital Bed

The number of new COVID-19 cases in India hit an all-time high.
Pallavi Pundir
4.19.21
Space

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Has Pulled off Its Historic First Flight

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter performed the first powered flight on another planet on Monday, ushering in a new era of extraterrestrial aviation.
Becky Ferreira
4.19.21
china

China’s Ex-Leader Seems to Have Published a Rare Column. Now It’s Censored.

China’s former No. 2 leader, Premier Wen Jiabao, appears to have made rare public remarks on his tenure and the future of the country.
Viola Zhou
Alan Wong
4.19.21
Music

‘It’s Like Having a Little of Them Back’: Fans Review ‘New’ Music By Their Favourite Dead Artists

A new initiative has released AI-generated songs by artists from the notorious 27 Club. But can they do justice to the legends?
Jaishree Kumar
4.19.21
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