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California has almost completed distribution of Android tablets to all incarcerated people, a program aiming to ease communication and promote rehabilitation. Prisoners inside say it has changed the culture, but related costs can add up.
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You've probably heard about people who try to avoid using plastic for a month, or who spend a year not buying products from China. But a month not using…
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The concept of money you never touch is a little easier to understand in the age of debit cards. But Bitcoin? Virtual wallets? Cryptocurrencies? It takes…
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Smart meters are being installed in place of the old analog "wheel" meters in the region by Pacific Power. But not without a fight, in some cases. There's…
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The future may or may not look like the "Terminator" movies, but our machines are certainly making inroads. We've had drones stop responding to commands,…
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Many of the activities that once kept people busy in rural areas just require fewer people now. So it's hard to keep people down on the farm (or forest).…
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One of our country's leading car-hire companies does not own the cars it hires. Likewise, some of the major players in the overnight lodging business do…
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The tech industry is so dominated by males that some people have taken to calling its workers "brogrammers." But a closer look reveals women who made key…
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"Another cup of coffee, ma'am?" Stop and ask yourself if it would make a difference to you who asked that: person or machine. Because those days may be…
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Franklin Foer DOES have a Facebook page, but he hasn't updated it in nearly a year. Which should come as no surprise once you hear his issues with…
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It's not just a TV-show trope that many of the people working at writing computer programs are male. It's a fact in real life, and one that Reshma Saujani…
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Cellphones are in just about everybody's hands or pockets these days, and we've gotten used to having them around. We just notice less when people pull…
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Many jobs once done by people can now be performed by machines. Don't plan a long-term future on a job, if a robot can do it smarter and faster. Our job…