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What Patent Ownership Gets Wrong About Innovation
The four stages of making a paper plane. From a crumbled piece of paper to the plane.

What Patent Ownership Gets Wrong About Innovation
Dominique Stewart
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Despite the U.S. patent system being open to all inventors, the face of “innovation” has been overwhelmingly white, male, and born to wealth.

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Technology
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The Invisible Labor Force Powering ChatGPT
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The Invisible Labor Force Powering ChatGPT
Nia Norris
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The gig economy includes a cheap workforce contributing to the efficiency of valuable technology, including ChatGPT.

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Technology Workplace
2400 1594 Nia Norris
We Can’t Electric Car Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
Electric vehicles charging in a parking garage.

We Can’t Electric Car Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
Dominique Stewart
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Wealthy nations are pushing electric vehicles as a green solution, ignoring the toll it has on human rights and the environment.

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Environment Technology
2400 1601 Dominique Stewart
Deepfakes 101: Deception in the Digital Age
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Deepfakes 101: Deception in the Digital Age
Dominique Stewart
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In an age of misinformation, fake news, and conspiracies, the distortion of reality affects us all, whether on a political, social, or personal level.

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Technology
1920 1280 Dominique Stewart
Politicians Use Anti-Asian Hate to Sell a TikTok Ban
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew makes opening statement to Congress.

Politicians Use Anti-Asian Hate to Sell a TikTok Ban
Andrew Lee
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Congress is trying to greatly reduce U.S. residents’ privacy rights through legislation banning TikTok, using rhetoric with anti-Asian tropes.

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Politics Technology
2344 1168 Andrew Lee
Fact-Checking in the Age of Misinformation
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Fact-Checking in the Age of Misinformation
Anmol Irfan
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As social media becomes the basis for consuming news, misinformation is spreading faster and getting harder to verify.

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Technology
2400 1600 Anmol Irfan
Blackface in the Digital Age
A 3D computer rendering of a human with a Black body but a white head.

Blackface in the Digital Age
Nicole Cardoza
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How social spaces and tech profit off the exploitative use of Blackness and racial stereotypes in a repackaged and digitized version of blackface.

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Media & Culture Technology
2400 1350 Nicole Cardoza
How Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom
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How Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom
Nicole Cardoza
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The fight against Roe v. Wade underscores how digital surveillance can be used to incriminate people seeking abortion care.

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Technology
2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
Severing the Lines of Communication
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Severing the Lines of Communication
Dominique Stewart
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Privatizing prison technology and communication add a costly financial burden on incarcerated people and their families.

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Criminal Legal System Technology
1920 1280 Dominique Stewart
How the Nextdoor App Modernized Racial Profiling
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How the Nextdoor App Modernized Racial Profiling
Andrew Lee
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The Nextdoor app’s racist practices by users underscore the inherent problems of integrating unchecked stereotypes into technology.

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Neighborhoods Technology
1080 726 Andrew Lee
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