Today's problem is... My sister would like to get broadband/WiFi where she lives. She is 69 and receives a state pension, but has no other form of income. She also gets housing benefit, soon to be ...

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When a Cloudflare outage disrupted large numbers of websites and online services yesterday, the company initially thought it was hit by a “hyper-scale” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack. “I ...

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Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

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In the parking lot outside a church in the Eastern Shore of Maryland, a mobile treatment unit quietly offers what too many people desperately need in the United States but too often cannot get – ...

In the world of fat activism, the “O-words”—overweight and obesity—are expressly verboten. That’s because advocates and “fat studies” scholars want to destigmatize and accommodate fatness—their ...

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will get more homeless people off the streets. The order has some good parts to it, including additional support for mental health ...

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