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Antiwork subreddit fox news interview Antiwork, the popular Reddit forum where members discuss the exploitation of workers and other issues related to labor reform, has been made public again after one of its moderators made a controversial appearance on Fox News. The subreddit had been taken private after a segment in which Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested...

Facebook 400 dollars Facebook might owe you $400. No, that’s not a scam. It’s the result of a class-action lawsuit settlement, but to be eligible, you must meet some specific criteria: You’re a Facebook user who has lived in Illinois for at least six months and who was in a picture uploaded to the site after June 7,...

Will ghana farmers away from geneticallymodified How to be a better listener This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. All images by Ankur Paliwal for Undark. Under the noonday sun, Alimatu Alidu uses a stone to grind tomato, red pepper, and small crayfish into a red paste. Drops of sweat collect on her forehead, just...

Apple podcast update terrible Apple’s terrible podcast app has finally taught me a lesson about myself—and I don’t like it. If I was already mad at the app before, I’m utterly incensed at it now, due to all this unwanted introspection. Before revealing the substance of what I’ve reluctantly learned, allow me to recap the drama surrounding this...

Drawings from mental asylums James Edward Deeds Jr. was destined to be a completely unknown artist. Declared insane in 1936 at the age of 28, Deeds spent his life in a Missouri mental hospital known as State Lunatic Asylum No. 3, where he drew prolifically. When he died, his art ended up in a family member’s attic, forgotten....

Bored ape “Free food and drink inside.” A bouncer teases the crowd waiting to enter New York’s Pier 17, a concert venue in Manhattan’s Seaport. “But there are no bathrooms.” Thousands of people have gathered here for the fourth and final night of Apefest, a party for members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and their invited...

Interview tim sweeney epic unreal nanitesullivan Of all the rudimentary forms of the metaverse out there, few if any are as fully realized and well used as Epic Games’ Fortnite. Fortnite grew from game to metaverse in an organic way: People began lingering in Fortnite‘s 3D world after they were done playing, just to hang out with friends....

To summer provide smartphone parts tools Samsung has become the latest phone maker to get ahead of right-to-repair legislation by helping customers fix their own devices. Starting this summer, Samsung says it will sell genuine parts and tools to customers needed to repair its Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 smartphones, along with its Galaxy Tab S7+ tablet. The...

Just water jaden smith Even if he was just a tween at the time, Jaden Smith wanted to make a difference. After seeing plastic water bottles littering the ocean and the planet, he decided to create a company that replaced all those single-use plastic bottles with something more sustainable. “I knew that it was going to be really...

Will robots really work For decades, robots have worked alongside humans. In the auto industry, for example, they’ve long been the most precise and reliable welders and painters. Sitting in place and doing the same job, over and over, has historically been automation’s sweet spot. But, with the explosion in artificial intelligence, robots are coming to understand more...