Feb 13 For Valentine’s Day, put down your phone and face your feelings with these poems By Jennifer Hijazi We are more connected than ever, but poet Matthew Siegel finds it’s made communication and knowing our own feelings more difficult. Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 5:10 How GPS exercise data can reveal sensitive military locations By PBS News Hour GPS data created by millions of people who use mobile devices or apps to track their exercise might also be revealing sensitive national security information. A 20-year-old Australian student discovered the locations of bases where military forces and intelligence services… Continue watching
Jan 22 AI and robots are displacing science and tech workers. The question is: How quickly? By David Deming The growth of high-paying science, technology, engineering and math jobs has declined slightly in recent years due to automation. Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch 10:10 2017 was a year of scrutiny for social media and other tech By PBS News Hour Technology in 2017 may have inspired more skepticism than the awe or optimism it has in the past. Such defining moments, from harassment allegations to hacking exploits, may have cast the tech industry in a much harsher light. Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching
Dec 21 How the emerging tech hubs of Africa are getting connected to Silicon Valley By Larisa Epatko “The Africa I know and I represent is one where youth, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation will thrive,” said Stephen Ozoigo of African Technology Foundation. Continue reading
Dec 14 Watch 3:13 The alarming challenge of building a safer, fairer internet By PBS News Hour When Martha Lane Fox was starting her career in tech, the internet felt like the "most incredible, redistributive, democratic, empowering force for good." So what went wrong? Fox, a current board member of Twitter and founder of Doteveryone, offers her… Continue watching
Nov 30 LISTEN: These kayaks turn ocean science into music By Teresa Carey New kayaks, rigged with custom sensors by British scientists, can serenade paddlers with music made from environmental data. Continue reading
Nov 24 How to avoid toxic toys this holiday season By Lesley McClurg, KQED Science The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), a consumer watchdog group, just released their annual Trouble in Toyland report. Continue reading
Oct 29 Why we’ll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters By Leo Braudy, The Conversation All the popular monsters you'll see out trick-or-treating, from Frankenstein to Dracula, were born out of fear and anxiety about change and technology. Continue reading
Oct 19 Analysis: Teens are sleeping less. Why? Smartphones By Jean Twenge, The Conversation By 2015, 43 percent of teens reported sleeping less than seven hours a night on most nights – meaning almost half of U.S. teens are significantly sleep-deprived. Continue reading