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Increasing Diversity in Tech Will Take a Lot More Than Promises Increasing Diversity in Tech Will Take a Lot More Than Promises

Facebook and Google have been trying to increase diversity for a year, to little result.

Jun 30, 2015 / Bryce Covert

Comix Nation

Comix Nation Comix Nation

Jun 2, 2015 / Tom Tomorrow

The Key to Ending Mass Surveillance? Math.

The Key to Ending Mass Surveillance? Math. The Key to Ending Mass Surveillance? Math.

Encryption is a better safeguard of our civil liberties than the law.

May 27, 2015 / Feature / Eleanor Saitta

What Amazon Taught the Cops

What Amazon Taught the Cops What Amazon Taught the Cops

Predictive policing is just another form of supply-chain efficiency.

May 27, 2015 / Feature / Ingrid Burrington

How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score

How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score How Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score

Welcome to the new Wild West of data collection without regulation.

May 27, 2015 / Feature / Astra Taylor and Jathan Sadowski

These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us

These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us These Workers Have a New Demand: Stop Watching Us

How workplace surveillance has become a menace to health and safety.

May 27, 2015 / Feature / Jessica Bruder

Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That.

Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That. Want to Cut Welfare? There’s an App for That.

Conservatives explore cutting benefits behind a high-tech facade.

May 27, 2015 / Feature / Virginia Eubanks

‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political

‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political ‘Tech’ Is Political—How We Respond to It Needs to Be Just as Political

New technologies will not solve our problems: People acting collectively will.

May 27, 2015 / Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866

Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866 Solar Power Is on the Rise? We Suggested Harnessing the Sun’s Heat Back in 1866

We look back to the time when a science columnist wrote up one possible replacement for "the fossil fuel which is now so important an element in the existing order of human society...

Apr 22, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and Back Issues

Is Privacy Obsolete?

Is Privacy Obsolete? Is Privacy Obsolete?

Thanks to the revolution in digital technology, privacy is about to go the way of the eight-track player.

Mar 23, 2015 / Feature / David Cole

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