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The Digital Divide in the United States’ Public Schools Is an Issue of Access
New technologies in the workplace are so ubiquitous that we barely notice them, but it's taken longer for these tools to take hold in classrooms.
Hackers Gain Access to 143 Million Americans’ Information
The breach reportedly includes Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, home addresses, and driver's license numbers.
Popular Music Piracy Site Shutting Down
Last year, a group of 15 record labels sued the website Youtube-mp3.org and its proprietors for copyright violation.
Russian Propaganda Bots Have Helped Amplify Right-Wing Extremism Online After Charlottesville
The Internet and social media provide Russia cheap, efficient, and highly effective access to foreign audiences with plausible deniability of their influence.
What Google Bros Have in Common With Medieval Beer Bros
The exclusion of women from coding fits perfectly into centuries of labor history.
Engineering the End of Malaria
Intellectual Ventures has put some of the profits from licensing patents into developing breakthrough health-care technologies that nobody else has been able to pursue.
Did Google and GoDaddy Set a Dangerous Precedent by Dropping a Neo-Nazi Website?
A digital civil liberties lawyer weighs in.
How Social Media Helped Organize and Radicalize America’s White Supremacists
The white nationalist organizers in Charlottesville used the same social media tools as everyone else. One professor argues that means we need to rethink how we approach the First Amendment.
With Great Health Data Comes Great Potential for Bias
Are we creating health management systems that are responsive to differences, or ones that spit back content riddled with historical bias and discrimination?