Kristen Charpentier’s first clue was that the voice was too nice. She pulled into a Dairy Queen drive-thru in Cary, North Carolina, and the speaker…
Note: this segment is from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, and it comes with the profanity, crude humor, and political asides the show is known…
Inside a test kitchen in Omaha, Conagra executives huddled over plastic trays of microwaved eggs, potatoes and sausage, lifting packets of cheese sauce and pouring…
Getting a product onto a Walmart or Target shelf is the part of Place students almost never see. NPR’s Planet Money just recorded it. For…
Sarah, a 20-year-old NYU student, was asked how much personal information she hands to her chatbot. “I think about it for a little bit and…
One note before the story. This article involves compulsive spending, a drained retirement account, and a marriage that ended over it. Compulsive spending and gambling…
The NPR Planet Money podcast fell off my regular rotation. Then, I saw this one and gave it a listen. It’s a great fit for…
Dakota Albritton had not played baseball in two years when his mother signed him up for a tryout with a team he had never heard…
The Daydream app allows shoppers to use natural language to find fashion. You and your students can read about it in “AI shopping is coming…