Las mentiras de la ciencia ficción capitalista La novela de ciencia ficción Snow Crash (1992) de Neil Stephenson anticipó un futuro de ciudades ultraprecarias gobernadas por grandes corporaciones, planteó la expansión de un potente cibervirus y, sobre todo, desarrolló la idea de metaverso como realidad virtual. Poco después de su publicación, varias empresas de Silicon […]
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Forty years after the Johnny Gosch disappearance, fear continues to fuel conspiracy theories in Iowa and beyond
Listen an audio version of this article here, or using the player at the bottom of the page. On Sept. 20, 1984, President Ronald Reagan gave a speech in Cedar Rapids as part of his reelection campaign. In it, he advocated for slashing taxes and “the simple values of faith, family, neighborhood and good, hard […]
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Facebook deleted Table to Table’s page without explanation
Table to Table has been hard at work throughout 2020, continuing the mission it started in 1996 to help feed people in need by preventing food waste. But since the beginning of October, the Iowa City-based nonprofit has been all but invisible on social media, because Facebook unpublished Table to Table’s page. “It happened on […]
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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller joins antitrust investigations of Google and Facebook
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced this week that he’s one of eight state attorneys general leading an investigation in Google’s business practices. The probe is aimed at determining whether the company is violating antitrust laws.
