News in Brief Another Way Facebook and Google May Be Undermining Democracy Google and Facebook have, in recent months, belatedly began to engage in the battle against fake news. But… Tom Jacobs
News in Brief The Google Bubble Election Is Google’s algorithm responsible for the electorate’s inability to agree on even basic facts? By Rick Paulas (Photo:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Google’s Broken Privacy Promise Google is the latest technology company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online advertising tracking and user’s… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Next Internet Is Gigabit Internet While the speedy service has been around for a while, its high cost has placed it almost exclusively… Pacific Standard Staff
Environment The Artificial Intelligence That Solved Go Nineteen years after Deep Blue won a chess match against a grand master, a Google team has created an A.I. that's able to win against professional players of the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go. Francie Diep
Social Justice What’s Behind 2015’s Most-Googled Search Terms? Oh, yeah, we were so into Caitlyn Jenner too! Francie Diep
Environment What We Know About the Computer Formulas Making Decisions in Your Life When big data uses bad data, discrimination can result. Lauren Kirchner
Environment The Pointlessness of M-City Why test cars on fake roads when they'll need to operate on real ones? Susie Cagle
Education Since We Last Spoke: Too Cool for AltSchool Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories. Pacific Standard Staff
Environment Will Google Kill ‘The Fat Man’? What runaway trolleys tell us about driverless cars. Rick Paulas