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Author and cultural critic David Bosworth discusses America's myth of individualism and how it feeds a digital culture that ironically infantilizes its users and demands constant approval from strangers.
As some businesses stop taking cash, the poor, those without smartphones, and those who value privacy will be further excluded from the economy.
Legal theorist Ryan Calo explores how the law is (or isn’t) evolving in response to technological quandaries like robotics and digital surveillance.
In the wake of ongoing privacy breaches, releasing Facebook’s newest offering, a videophone with an auto-tracking camera, takes a lot of chutzpah.
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.
In many places, birth by emergency surgery–the C-section–is increasingly the norm. Part three in a series on technological childbirth.
A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.
Air conditioning is ruining our body’s ability to adapt to heat, while it wastes a tremendous, and growing, amount of energy.
In a digital world, analog games are having a surprising—and explosive—renaissance.
The Supreme Court finally taps the brakes on the unrestrained collection of digital data by law enforcement.