Your Portal to Privacy Invasion
In the wake of ongoing privacy breaches, releasing Facebook’s newest offering, a videophone with an auto-tracking camera, takes a lot of chutzpah.
Podcast #21: Betsy Brunner on Circumventing Censorship
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Podcast #21: Betsy Brunner on Circumventing Censorship
Betsy Brunner of Idaho State examines social media and social movements, particularly in China, where she's looked at the creative ways people get around the limits of surveillance and censorship.
The Apex of Technological Birth
In many places, birth by emergency surgery–the C-section–is increasingly the norm. Part three in a series on technological childbirth.
Podcast #20: Huei Peng and Driverless Cars
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
Are We Conditioning Our Air or Ourselves?
Air conditioning is ruining our body’s ability to adapt to heat, while it wastes a tremendous, and growing, amount of energy.
The Cardboard Renaissance: Analog Games Take Off
In a digital world, analog games are having a surprising—and explosive—renaissance.
Carpenter v. US: A Rare Win for Privacy Rights
The Supreme Court finally taps the brakes on the unrestrained collection of digital data by law enforcement.
What Facebook Knows
We’ve long known Facebook is selling our data to advertisers in a vague sense; now we can see what they’re hoarding and who’s buying.
Podcast #19: Tim Kasser Talks Materialism
Tim Kasser has spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being. As it turns out, they don’t always go together.
Geofencing: Corporate Surveillance in the Real World
Geofencing is the way corporations and advertisers track your every move–literally.