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# tech
In a quest for productivity from remote workers, companies are creating a totalitarian nightmare in which computers police employees’ every second.
# tech
As the virus pushes our finely fined, just-in-time supply chains to the breaking point with frustrating ease, it's worth asking if we should rethink how we make and service things.
# space
Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
# politics
Numerous studies show that humans have a biological aversion to extreme unfairness and inequality, and lash out when we encounter it.
# health
Small pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the patent system to jack up the prices of life-saving medication.
# science
Chipotle tried to appeal to the most ardent anti-GMO activists. Now it's paying the price.
# science
Studies into the health of workers and middle managers leads to the inescapable conclusion that today's work culture is making us miserable and unhealthy.
# tech
The American healthcare system today is a mess of paperwork and confusion. More data and smarter, fact-based decision making could improve its highly mixed outcomes.
# tech
Malware peddlers apparently have great customer service. And if you think about it, they really have to...
# tech
The anger at Marissa Meyer has nothing to do with whether her employees will have to spend more time at the office and everything with why they're being corralled into their cubicles.