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How Tech Tools Helped Taiwanese Activists Turn a Social Movement Into Real Policy Change

Jordan Sandman and Ben Gregori

The TikTok Deal Stinks

Jonathan L. Fischer

The WeChat Ban Is Particularly Cruel to This Group of American Users

Whitney Tesi

Facebook’s New Project Aria Could Be an Augmented Reality Turning Point

Joseph Jerome

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How Tech Tools Helped Taiwanese Activists Turn a Social Movement Into Real Policy Change

Jordan Sandman and Ben Gregori

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The TikTok Deal Stinks

Jonathan L. Fischer

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The WeChat Ban Is Particularly Cruel to This Group of American Users

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Facebook’s New Project Aria Could Be an Augmented Reality Turning Point

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The iPhone’s Voice Memos Feature Might Be Tracking Your Location

Aaron Mak

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Here’s What the Trump Administration’s TikTok and WeChat Bans Actually Do

Aaron Mak

Sept 18, 2020 11:54 AM
The Social Dilemma Fails to Tackle the Real Issues in Tech

Pranav Malhotra

Sept 18, 2020 11:31 AM
American Girl’s New Doll “Courtney” Is the Game Developer the ’80s Needed

Casey Fiesler

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Fake Data Could Help Solve Machine Learning’s Bias Problem—if We Let It

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The Apple Watch Won’t Come With a Charger Anymore. Are iPhones Next?

Whitney Tesi

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Something’s Up on Venus. What Happens to the Planet Now?

Lucianne Walkowicz

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Government Can’t Wait for Emergencies to Get Creative

Cassandra Robertson

Sept 15, 2020 11:48 AM
Why Are Private Companies Telling Us More About Election Interference Than the Government Is?

Josephine Wolff

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Donald Marinelli

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Future Tense Newsletter: Technology Is Cyclical

Torie Bosch

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Every COVID-19 Death Has Devastated a Family

Elaine Yaffe

Sept 12, 2020 5:58 AM
Wildfire Smoke May Put Firefighters at Greater Risk From COVID-19

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It’s Time for a Reckoning About This Foundational Piece of Police Technology

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The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19

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App-Based Contact Tracing Has Been a Bust. Apple Wants to Try Something New.

Aaron Mak

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