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There’s a special room dedicated to women in computing. Yelton posted a selfie of herself in the room, posting: “Yes, I am totally taking a selfie in this particular exhibit.”

We used to worry about filter bubbles, which accidentally trap users in a certain sphere of information. In the era of social networks, the bubble has expanded.

David O’Brien on tools used by law enforcement to crack into suspects' personal digital devices

Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right.

How the anonymous messaging platform Kik should approach safety for its young audience

Jonathan Zittrain says the chances that the Internet will be a engine for positivity are lower than they were ten years ago

The Twitter celebrity's Laughing Room features a laugh track powered by artificial intelligence

Making Internet-connected devices more secure will require smarter regulations

An immersive project that examines the intersection of art, technology, and privacy

A set of resources for public-interest technologists

Algorithms may be intended to have a positive impact, but what happens when the opposite occurs?

A skeptic's guide to the market for AI technologies, especially for government and policymakers

Why is there so often no overlap, no resemblance whatsoever between the news events reported in mainstream print and broadcast coverage?

“What’s striking about Ocasio-Cortez’s style is just how digitally native it seems."

"The highly asymmetric pattern of media ecosystems we observe on the right and the left, despite the fact that Facebook and Twitter usage is roughly similar on both sides,…

Police gather on social media in order to prevent and investigate criminal activity. But the clues found within aren't always conclusive

"Data scientists must recognize themselves as political actors and adopt an explicit politics of social justice."

A ‘Magna Carta for the web’ will protect people’s rights online from threats such as fake news, prejudice and hate, says founder of the world wide web

Surveying and explaining open science initiatives and tools

Can fake doctored videos — known as “deepfakes” — impact elections?