How ‘StudyTube’ promotes toxic productivity and abuse
When YouTuber Elena Handtrack received more than 40 abusive messages from a single person during one of her live videos,...
Central bank digital currencies are starting to become a reality
In October, Stefan Ingves, the governor of Sweden’s central bank, Riksbank, wrote in an economic note on the future of...
Virtual reality churches have been thriving throughout the pandemic
In August 2020, Mathias Melendez, 22, from San Antonio, Texas, stumbled upon a Facebook ad of Life.Church Online, the cyberchurch of...
Why gig workers are turning away from traditional banks
162 million people, or 30% of the workforce, across the US and the EU-15 countries are gig workers. In 2018,...
Why we must democratize AI to invest in human prosperity, with Frank Pasquale
Four years ago, Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, catalyzed a debate over algorithmic and corporate power...
Forget computer science degrees and MBAs, social sciences are the key to success
The last thing on Amy Golding’s mind when she left Cambridge with a degree in English literature was technology. “When...
‘Sneaker bots’ are snapping up limited edition shoes
It's the moment you've been waiting for. You set three different alarms, and you could barely sleep last night because...
What one far-right website’s removal reveals about the future of webhost law
During the week of November 15th, right-leaning blog The Conservative Treehouse (CTH) received a notification from their web host, WordPress,...
More people use Tor for nefarious means in freer countries
One of the first quantifiable analyses of how people use Tor shows that the freer a country’s political debate, the...
‘Empathetic’ software is set to change the way we shop
It’s grocery shopping day and you enter your favorite big store. One of the shop’s social robots, a shiny black-and-white...
