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• ‘The Invisibles’: Unseen footage of Italy’s migrant labourers at peak of COVID-19

  July 5, 2020

  Those are the words of Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian living in Italy whose work as a union leader to fight for the rights of over 200,000 migrant labourers – mostly… more ›

• The Post-Pandemic Style

  July 3, 2020

  Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. Outside grocery stores, neat yellow marks on concrete sidewalks compose masked… more ›

• For Lesbians, TikTok Is ‘the Next Tinder’

  July 2, 2020

  Young women feeling alienated by dating apps and bar culture are finding love on their For You pages. On Feb. 3, Lauren Vlach received $8 on Venmo, spread across four… more ›

• When Haiti paid France for freedom: the greatest heist in history

  July 2, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, there have been calls for defunding police departments and demands for the removal of statues. The issue of reparations for slavery has also… more ›

• America’s Enduring Caste System

  July 1, 2020

  We saw a man face down on the pavement, pinned beneath a car, and above him another man, a man in uniform, his skin lighter than the man on the… more ›

• Replacing CFA with Eco ‘challenges the sovereignty’ of Nigerian naira

  June 30, 2020

  The Francophone countries coming together to replace the colonial currency, the CFA Franc with the Eco, may be “a major step forward and a positive thing,” says Andrew S. Nevin,… more ›

• The Walkman, Forty Years On

  June 30, 2020

  Even prior to extended quarantines, lockdowns, and self-isolation, it was hard to imagine life without the electronic escapes of noise-cancelling earbuds, smartphones, and tablets. Today, it seems impossible. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-walkman-forty-years-on more ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  June 28, 2020

  One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence more ›

• Mumbai’s amazing lunch couriers bring office workers home-cooked meals every day

  June 28, 2020

  Dabbawalla 4 minutes https://aeon.co/videos/mumbai-s-amazing-lunch-couriers-bring-office-workers-home-cooked-meals-every-day more ›

• ‘The Twilight Zone,’ from A to Z

  June 27, 2020

  The planet has been knocked off its elliptical orbit and overheats as it hurtles toward the sun; the night ceases to exist, oil paintings melt, the sidewalks in New York… more ›