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Your One Beautiful Thing from 2025
After a year of political, economic and societal turmoil, we sit down with KQED’s Arts team to talk about their annual series, One Beautiful Thing. T…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
California’s AI Data Centers Taking Growing Environmental Toll
Data centers are the server farms that power the internet. California has the third-most data centers of any state: over 320 sites, with more constru…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Misogyny Has Gone Mainstream. What Can be Done?
The president calling female reporters “piggy”, “stupid” and “ugly.” Claims that liberal feminism has ruined the workplace. The manosphere. Despite t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
How Loyalty Programs Manipulate Consumers and Steal Personal Data
From hotels to fast food restaurants, more companies are luring consumers to sign up for loyalty programs in exchange for points, discounts and other…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Kaiser Therapists Battle to Fend Off Artificial Intelligence
In recent contract negotiations, Kaiser Permanente therapists asked for language to specify that artificial intelligence would not “replace” humans i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Is Hollywood Freaking Out About a Warner Bros Discovery Sale?
From Hollywood to Rockefeller Plaza, news of a potential sale of Warner Bros Discovery has sent shockwaves through the film industry. And the current…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
After a Rocky Year, What’s the Future of Cryptocurrency?
2025 was supposed to be crypto’s year. President Trump began his term by announcing a strategic Bitcoin reserve and promised to back the market for t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
New Research Tackles Heightened Risk of Suicide for Autistic Kids
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the U.S. for kids aged 10 to 18. And autistic youth are more likely to think about and die from suicide, and a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
How Freaked Out Should We Be About All These Small Earthquakes?
There have been more than 150 small earthquakes in San Ramon in the past month. In one rattling day alone there were at least 19 of magnitude 2.0 or …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Remembering Those We Lost in 2025
Diane Keaton. Jane Goodall. Belva Davis. Ozzy Osbourne. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. David Lynch. We lost cultural luminaries, larger-than-life personali…
5 months ago