Countless artificial intelligence (AI) platforms make use of content moderation filters to prevent harmful and inappropriate output from...

Malika Saada Saar ’92 is a human rights lawyer currently serving as YouTube’s Global Head of Human Rights who previously served as...

Jeff Orlowski is the founder and president of Exposure Labs. Exposure Labs focuses on creating documentaries around areas that need...

Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at...

What happens when you are no longer the sole owner of your face? We live in a networked reality, meaning that the realities that dwell...

“Biohacking” is an evolving trend in which people change their food and lifestyle habits to take advantage of biological mechanisms and...

Across six time zones, Americans sit in traffic, wait on platforms, and squeeze between strangers. We spend an average of 26.9 minutes...

Within the next year, major telecom companies plan to roll out technology capable of connecting the world’s billions of devices with...

Although they may seem like novelties at first glance, “deepfakes” threaten to usher in a new era where our eyes and ears can no longer...

On average, Americans spend ten hours staring at a screen every day. The incorporation of internet use into everyday life has become so...

Algorithms have been created in a way that both reflects and perpetuates biases, particularly those regarding race and gender. In the...

Predictive policing, a practice carried out by tools like CrimeScan and PredPol, uses algorithmic systems to predict geographic areas...

During the Cultural Revolution, Xi Zhongxun, Xi Jinping’s father, was purged by student militants following Mao’s call to “bombard the...

This past January, Zimbabwe experienced another bout of political instability as rising fuel prices drove citizens to the streets to...

YouTube offers an easy solution for busy parents: it can entertain children for hours and is easily accessible on a myriad of devices....

Over half a century ago, American mathematician and philosopher Norbert Weiner stated that “information is information, not matter or...

Over the last ten years, Netflix has made a dramatic transformation from a DVD mail-distribution service to an online streaming service....

With weekly notifications about how Facebook has failed to protect consumers due to its pursuit of profits, the focus on regulating...

In 1913, the Futurist painter Luigi Russolo wrote a manifesto encouraging readers to “walk across a great modern metropolis with ears...

Over the last 50 years, swearing in front of large audience has shifted from an obscenity crime to the norm, and while this trend has...