Innovation

Instacart, the online grocery delivery and pick-up service, announced on Thursday the start of a new pilot program that will allow people to pay for groceries using food stamps. The program is in partnership with the grocery store chain ALDI. Both…

While much of the conversation about the 2020 election is focused on the top of the ticket, in California, a down-ballot proposition may hold undue influence on the future of the economy. The measure, Proposition 22, will determine if gig workers…

"Orange is sus, vote him out," might sound like something from a 2020 campaign ad, but it's actually a phrase more likely to be heard in Among Us, a multiplayer game released in 2018 but that has recently become a massive hit. Available on mobile…

Hydraulic fracturing has boomed in the U.S. over the past decade, but unless you live near it, you may not realize just how close fracking wells can be to homes and schools. In Colorado, the wellbore — the hole drilled to extract oil or gas — can be…

For years, law enforcement agencies at the state and federal levels have used often faulty and always creepy facial recognition technology to try to identify civilians. Now the table is being turned. According to a report from the New York Times,…

Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar slayed last night in Among Us, a multiplayer video game that’s basically Mafia but on a spaceship. There was maniacal laughter, shocked gasps, and plenty of love all around, but the main point…

This article was originally published by The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom covering the ways technology is changing society. Follow them on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to their newsletter here. As critically ill COVID-19 patients started…

We have a problem with microplastics. They're in the ocean, in the soil, in the air, and in the food we eat. Health researchers don't yet know what the consequences of absorbing these microscopic plastic particles are or what it could mean for our…

Well, it’s finally happened. After years of threats and anticipation, on Tuesday, the United States Justice Department announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company has participated in anti-competitive business…

If you had "tsunami threats in the Arctic" on your End Of the World Bingo card, mark it off. Experts are warning that Alaska and other typically frozen tundras around the world are at risk of experiencing devastating tsunamis that could threaten…

Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On Oct. 20, a University of Arizona-led NASA mission 16 years in the making will attempt the astronomical equivalent more than 200…

Astronomers using telescopes positioned around the world have managed to catch a rare sighting of a star being torn to shreds as it was consumed by the powerful, gravitational pull of a black hole. A study detailing their observations was published…

Researchers in Peru have made a surprising, and adorable, discovery on a desert hillside — a giant, prehistoric etching of a relaxed cat. Located in a UNESCO World Heritage site, the cat is one of many Nazca Lines found in the region that depict…

In the last half-decade, Alaska has warmed faster than any other state in the country. That spells trouble for a lot of people, including those who are largely responsible for that uptick in temperature. Energy companies trying to extract hundreds…

With just under three weeks to go until the 2020 presidential election, Trump has his sights set on the big issues. No, not the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has left more than 215,000 Americans dead, nor the skyrocketing number of jobless…

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is famous for being a beautiful underwater wonderland that hosts the world’s largest coral reef system. But it’s been hit hard over the years by warming waters and acidification brought on through climate change. The…

A common refrain during election years is the question, "are you better off now than four years ago?" If you're an industrial polluter or environmental criminal, the answer is likely a resounding yes. According to a study published Wednesday in the…

So you've finally had enough of frantically searching for one of your 500 poorly-labeled files and are ready to organize your Google Docs. It's pretty silly and weirdly inconvenient, but you can't actually do a lot of file management in Google Docs.…

On Wednesday morning, the New York Post published a supposed bombshell of a story about Hunter Biden. Citing emails and documents supposedly recovered by a computer repair shop from an abandoned MacBook Pro, the story alleges that Hunter used his…