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Predictive Policing Can Reduce Racial Discrimination in Law Enforcement

ByGuest Post

By Pete Mains  In 2020, Santa Cruz, California banned predictive policing and facial recognition technology to the applause of civil liberties groups like the ACLU, NAACP and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Facial recognition technology is invasive, and the case against it rests on moral rather than technical grounds. Predictive policing, less widely understood, simply…

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Decrypting FBI Director Wray’s Intent on Tech User Privacy

ByGuest Post

FBI Director Christopher Wray recently used every trick in the book to justify his dislike of user privacy, including the familiar three-word standby that should invoke more fear in a citizen than almost any other phrase uttered by a government official: for the children. When public opinion hasn’t gone their way, government leaders often rely…

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5 Stats That Show American Workers Are More Prosperous Than Ever

ByGuest Post

Politicians are known for telling voters how bad things are. It’s a refrain that never seems to change regardless of the actual economic condition of a nation or community, and it’s practiced by those on both the political left and right. “The average American is working longer hours for lower wages,” Senator Bernie Sanders is…

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Search Engines are Better Than Hogwarts

ByGuest Post

Joakim Book The British science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke gave rise to three iconic laws, where only the third has, as we say in the twenty-first century, gone viral: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This law can be easily illustrated by some early first contacts with isolated human tribes. In several…

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Technology Creates More Jobs Than It Destroys

ByGuest Post

American presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Bill de Blasio are very concerned about robots taking people’s jobs. Yang has been touting his $1,000 per month “Freedom Dividend” for every American adult since the beginning of his primary run to offset the potential job losses due to automation. De Blasio, on September 5th, published an op-ed published in tech…

Did You Get Tricked by a Russian Spy Campaign This Week?
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Did You Get Tricked by a Russian Spy Campaign This Week?

ByShelby Wright

Assuming you are not living under a rock, you have most likely noticed that everyone from Kim Kardashian and the Jonas Brothers to 8-year-old children have been posting photos of themselves looking shockingly and accurately old. It seems everyone has been running a picture of their face through the “old age filter” from a program…

Remember the Good that Social Media has Achieved
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Remember the Good that Social Media has Achieved

ByGuest Post

By Alexandra Hudson It’s the popular and fashionable thing to do these days — on both the political Left and Right — to name, shame, and blame the social media giants for the death of American democracy. The Left, still smarting from Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016, emphasizes the way in which social media…