In a digital world where many adults remember a time before personal computers and the internet existed, its not surprising that ethics policies and practices are still catching up to the te... Read more
One persistent criticism of the tech industry is that it no longer works on big ideas. For all of Silicon Valley’s talk of changing the world, critics say, Google and Facebook mainly hire ar... Read more
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of start-ups, which they say could transform social... Read more
New system could reduce data-transmission delays across server farms by 99.6 percent Big websites usually maintain their own “data centers,” banks of tens or even hundreds of tho... Read more
Democratic movements can flourish online, but just as easily get censored. A group of researchers is developing solutions to the vulnerabilities and privacy problems with using big social me... Read more
It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a thought. But in a world where opting out of online culture is hardly an option, many take a far more sophisticated view of privacy th... Read more
Highly accurate system learns to decipher images on its own If we’ve learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it’s that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate human... Read more
It started over a poker game. Astrophysicist Robert Nemiroff and his students were playing cards (for chips) last summer, chatting about Facebook. They wondered: If there were time travelers... Read more
If you’re not concerned about government surveillance of your phone because the National Security Agency (NSA) only collects metadata, think again. A study from Stanford University sho... Read more
A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr. This mon... Read more
Clicking a ‘Like’ button on Facebook can make people less likely to donate to a cause in the future, says research from UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Would-be donors skip giving when offe... Read more
It’s a troubling image, one that some fear might not be limited to works of fiction. Consider this scene in “The Circle,” Dave Eggers’s new novel that imagines a dystopian future dominated b... Read more
There is conventional wisdom about what kind of material will go viral on the Internet: celebrity slide shows, lists like 10 tips for losing belly fat, and quirky kitten antics. Then there i... Read more
Flourish is a program for students or recent graduates of colleges and universities who want to use their creative skills to help interesting companies grow. It is unique in the way it train... Read more
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur and investor, attracted some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names to join him in starting a life sciences prize this year. Now, he has wooed a titan from C... Read more
