Google

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

• By Greg Rosalsky

How can universities convince them to share that information?

• By Francie Diep

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

• By Francie Diep

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.

• By Feargus O'Sullivan

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

• By James McWilliams

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

• By Alastair Bland

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.

• By Jesse Eisinger

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

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

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

• By Sarah Barns

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

• By Tom Jacobs

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.

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By David M. Perry

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.

• By Francie Diep

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

• By Francie Diep

When big data uses bad data, discrimination can result.

• By Lauren Kirchner

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

• By Susie Cagle

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

What runaway trolleys tell us about driverless cars.

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Kyle Chayka

The company has more practice than you might expect.

• By Susie Cagle

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

• By Susie Cagle

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A new study finds merely looking things up on the Web increases our belief in our own knowledge—even with topics unrelated to our search.

• By Tom Jacobs