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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

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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1200 675 Dominique Stewart
The Invisible Labor Force Powering ChatGPT
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The Invisible Labor Force Powering ChatGPT

The gig economy includes a cheap workforce contributing to the efficiency of valuable technology, including ChatGPT.

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2400 1594 Nia Norris
We Can’t Electric Car Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
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We Can’t Electric Car Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

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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2400 1601 Dominique Stewart
Deepfakes 101: Deception in the Digital Age
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Deepfakes 101: Deception in the Digital Age

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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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

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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2344 1168 Andrew Lee
Fact-Checking in the Age of Misinformation
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Fact-Checking in the Age of Misinformation

As social media becomes the basis for consuming news, misinformation is spreading faster and getting harder to verify.

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2400 1600 Anmol Irfan
Blackface in the Digital Age
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Blackface in the Digital Age

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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2400 1350 Nicole Cardoza
How Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom
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How Digital Surveillance Threatens Reproductive Freedom

The fight against Roe v. Wade underscores how digital surveillance can be used to incriminate people seeking abortion care.

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2400 1600 Nicole Cardoza
Severing the Lines of Communication
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Severing the Lines of Communication

Privatizing prison technology and communication add a costly financial burden on incarcerated people and their families.

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1920 1280 Dominique Stewart
How the Nextdoor App Modernized Racial Profiling
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How the Nextdoor App Modernized Racial Profiling

The Nextdoor app’s racist practices by users underscore the inherent problems of integrating unchecked stereotypes into technology.

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