San Francisco Is Voting Today to Ban the City’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology
The vote comes amid concerns that the technology violates civil liberties and is subject to racial biases.
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How Disparities in Wealth Affect Gen Z’s Experiences With Technology
Income has an enormous impact on young people's educational experiences with technology, just as it does on every other aspect of school life.
How Did Kansas City Become Google’s Internet Guinea Pig?
The city’s infrastructure helped, but the aggressive organizing of non-profits made it work. By Rick Paulas (Photo: zachwerner/Flickr)…
How Non-Profits Help Close the Digital Divide
A tour through the nitty gritty details of getting as many people as possible connected to the Internet.…
Silicon Valley Is the Best and Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Art
When tech workers are considered the true “creative class,” artists don’t appear to win.
Dispatches From the Russian River: Beginnings
Alexis Coe leaves a changing San Francisco and settles into a cabin in the woods, beginning a process of personal and historical rediscovery.