February 24, 2021 Tech News Biden Faces a Steep Challenge to Unite Democracies on Tech In a February 19 speech at the Munich Security Conference, delivered virtually from the White House, President Joe Biden declared,…
February 23, 2021 Tech News Facebook’s Petty Unfriending of Australia Facebook shocked the world last week with an abrupt ban of all news content for an entire continent. Like many…
February 18, 2021 Tech News The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation Last month the esteemed Oxford Internet Institute announced a major report on disinformation and “cyber troops” with a press release…
February 16, 2021 Tech News What My Dialup Youth Taught Me About Sex and the Internet On the other hand, my middle school sex-ed class offered a total paucity of information. I heard about the literal…
February 15, 2021 Tech News A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy As compelling as that Apple ad is, the Peeping Tom narrative doesn’t capture the collective dimension of data privacy. The…
February 14, 2021 Tech News Authoritarian Regimes Could Exploit Cries of ‘Deepfake’ A viral video shows a young woman conducting an exercise class on a roundabout in the Burmese capital, Nyapyidaw. Behind…
February 12, 2021 Tech News Hackers, Mason Jars, and the Science of DIY Shrooms The overarching focus of these manuals was how to avoid contamination. Although mushrooms are often associated with dirt and rot,…
February 8, 2021 Tech News The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office I once worked for a few weeks at a big, busy company, and one day I asked, jokingly, “Where do…
February 7, 2021 Tech News How Choreography Can Help Robots Come Alive Consider this scene from the 2014 film, Ex Machina: A young nerd, Caleb, is in a dim room with a…
February 6, 2021 Tech News Sad QAnon Followers Are at a Precarious Pivot Point The QAnon conspiracy theory, spread in large part through social media, was recently supported by a majority of Republican voters.…