Stop Looking for Your Forever Home
My house is extremely ugly. It looks like someone built an evangelical mega-church in a residential neighborhood and then tried to turn it into a single-family home by putting in…
Do AI Systems Deserve Rights?
“Do you think people will ever fall in love with machines?” I asked the 12-year-old son of one of my friends. “Yes!” he said, instantly and with conviction. He and…
Vigilantes set gang members on FIRE & cut victims’ hands off in ‘world’s most dangerous city’ as bodies pile up in Haiti
HAITI is on the brink of collapse as armed gangs lay siege to the capital – but a grisly group of vengeful locals are fighting back. Port-au-Prince, a city dubbed…
Taps Run Dry Across South Africa’s Largest City in an Unprecedented Water Crisis
JOHANNESBURG — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its…
Maybe Our Phones Aren’t the Problem, Argues a New Book
Digital devices have reduced our attention spans to the point that they’re shorter than that of a goldfish. The blue light they emit disturbs our sleep. Most worryingly of all,…