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location data

Sweeping Legislation Aims to Ban the Sale of Location Data

The Health and Location Data Protection Act comes after Motherboard reported that brokers were selling location data on people visiting abortion clinics. The bill would give the FTC and individual people power to curb some of the worst abuses of such data
Joseph Cox
Liz Landers
6.15.22
Tech

You’re Afraid of AI for All the Wrong Reasons

Stories about intelligent machines painting masterpieces and gaining sentience distract from the very real problems with the systems.
Matthew Gault
6.15.22
Games Podcasts

Waypoint Radio Breaks Down All the Big ‘Not E3’ Video Game Announcements

Nextlander's Alex Navarro and Brad Shoemaker join the crew, as they hang out with Geoff Keighley and his world exclusives.
Ricardo Contreras
6.15.22
Ukraine War

Combat Sports Are the Strangest Propaganda Vector in the Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin and his allies have long used combat sports to glorify themselves. Now they're tools of wartime propaganda—and provide a pool of fighters.
Karim Zidan
6.15.22
Science

The Boom-Bust Cycle of Baby Names and Dog Breeds

People choose names and dogs depending on how common they are. Other cultural ideas spread or sputter out in similar ways, research suggests.
Shayla Love
6.15.22
qanon

The QAnon Caucus in Congress Just Got Bigger

Mayra Flores says she’s “never been supportive” of QAnon, but her social media presence tells a different story.
David Gilbert
6.15.22
Nightlife

The Inside Story of the UK’s ‘Biggest Illegal Party In 20 Years’

Thousands descended on a disused airfield in Cornwall over the Jubilee weekend for a days-long rave. Here's how it went down.
David Hillier
6.15.22
Drugs

Mexico's Cannabis Growers Are Going Rogue

Farmers are cultivating and selling cannabis as Mexico’s government continues to bungle weed legalization.
Nathaniel Janowitz
6.15.22
japan

Woman Charged With Animal Abuse for Letting Her 221 Dogs Fester in Their Own Feces

Neighbors had to close their windows to block out the pets’ howls and wafting smell of feces and urine.
Hanako Montgomery
6.15.22
News

White Nationalists Want to Reclaim Nature as a Safe Space for Racists

White supremacy groups have deep roots in the U.S. wilderness and recreation movements, going all the way back to the creation of the National Park System.
Tess Owen
6.15.22
Entertainment

Why the BTS ‘Break’ Isn’t That Big of a Surprise

While fans around the world expressed shock at the announcement, some pointed to signs that the break was a long time coming for the boy band.
Junhyup Kwon
Koh Ewe
6.15.22
Identity

Lesbian Women Tell Us How Straight Men Just Can’t Let Them Be

“On my birthday, he gifted me a card that had his thesis on lesbian women – how they must be ‘fixed,’ how they can destabilise the human population, how being lesbian was a disrespect to the nature of a womb.”
Arman Khan
6.15.22
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