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Humans often look to nature for the solutions to complex problems – here are five times where biological processes have inspired innovation.
The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how fragile Twitter is and what would be lost with the platform’s demise.
Having the ability to decide either to do something or not, and to act accordingly, is a basic definition of freedom. Smart buildings challenge this freedom.
Boosting body confidence should be as important as boosting sales to beauty brands.
The silver lining to recent tech giant job cuts could be more skilled labour for Irish tech and better options for women and older workers.
The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists speaking out against repression in Iran.
Digital technologies have the potential to yield positive results, if co-developed and used ethically with Indigenous communities.
TikTok is shaping the music industry like never before, but with rumours that the app may soon launch its own streaming service, the stakes for creative freedom are high.
Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities were also important in her invention of computer programming.
As Canada explores how technology can help streamline and improve the immigration process, migrant-centred design should be at the forefront of their planning.
Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph of just about anything.
The hacker who steals your data is just one part of an illicit supply chain featuring producers, wholesalers, distributors and consumers – a black-market industry worth millions of dollars.
From building planning to heritage restoration and advance surveillance, drones are set to change the face of our cities – here’s how.
A wealth of research on social media shows that COVID-19 misinformation is damaging to public health.
The deployment of 5G networks depends on the compatibility of the instruments and protocols of a handful of industry players.
Start high, drop fast and avoid the free-riders: How to design subsidies that can boost clean energy in the US and elsewhere.
If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.
In a viscous cycle, it’s also becoming harder to get cyberinsurance.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Director, Center for National Security Initiatives, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
