Q&A with William Li, PhD student in computer science http://people.csail.mit.edu/wli/ @williampli by Achyuth Samudrala Can you tell us something about…

The harms of Big Data, separating advertising's wheat and chaff, hitching with a fee, and life among the trolls. 

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce plans for its 2016 annual conference, entitled: “Big Data,…

For a research project, Whitney Phillips embedded with some of the Internet's most reviled trolls; she emerged to talk with us about how the Internet may be outgrowing them

Violence and social media, why blogging matters, 32 flavors of fave, and the question of "reasonable" security measures.

The future of sport, India's changing media landscape, connectivity vs. creativity, and our budding relationship with robots. 

Boston's Olympic bid spurred a remarkable community deliberation. It gave us a chance to talk about our visions for sports and the city. The discussions were exciting, and we felt…

Travel back in time with us, to 2010, when Larry Lessig (before he started running for president) and Jonathan Zittrain talked about a proposal to change the way we elect…

Debunking privacy myths, the crowdworker economy, problems with the RTBF, and why you should care about Bitcoin.