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The Trump administration announces new immigration rules, more wildfires erupt in California, and Google changes its sexual misconduct policies in response to walkouts.

Google employees walk off the job to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims, on November 1st, 2018, in Mountain View, California.

All that free junk food expands employees' waistlines—and creates ethical quandaries in the workplace.

How can universities convince them to share that information?

Google began notifying addiction treatment providers last week that they're allowed to buy ads on the search engine's results pages.

A Danish government memorandum suggests that the country's carbon emissions are due to rise sharply, by as much as 10 percent between now and 2030.

A new book explores the racial implications of the algorithms that structure our lives.

Global Fishing Watch, a non-profit group, is using new technology to fill in a major gap in its monitoring data.

Rohit Chopra, the newly installed commissioner of the FTC, is moving for a tougher stance from the watchdog group to push back against Trump's deregulatory agenda.

What Google Street View images tell us about our neighborhoods—and ourselves.

Many have attempted, and failed, to integrate technology into urban planning. and now Sidewalk Labs is trying it again in Toronto.

New research shows the effectiveness of aligning ads with a potential customer’s easily identified personality traits.

If the old corporate goal was to claim as many assets and employees as possible, the new one is to hand production off to external vendors and contract labor.

The exclusion of women from coding fits perfectly into centuries of labor history.

Nineteen years after Deep Blue won a chess match against a grand master, a Google team has created an A.I. that's able to win against professional players of the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go.

Oh, yeah, we were so into Caitlyn Jenner too!

When big data uses bad data, discrimination can result.

Why test cars on fake roads when they'll need to operate on real ones?

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

What runaway trolleys tell us about driverless cars.

It’s called the “filter bubble,” and it’s helping Google play to our prejudices.

It's easy to discuss Deep Dream as an independent creature. But like all kitsch, it comes straight back to its creators.

The company has more practice than you might expect.

We treat platforms like they are public utilities. They’re not—but maybe they could be.