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Today, Pranayraj Vangari concluded a 365-day challenge where he created a new article on the Telugu Wikipedia every day for the past year—including when he got married.
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The First Amendment protects the right of members of the public to record first responders addressing medical emergencies, EFF argued in an amicus brief filed in the federal trial court for the Northern District of Texas. The case, Adelman v. DART, concerns the arrest of a Dallas freelance press...
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The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
Heat pumps work even in very, very cold weather. Thanks to technological advancements in recent decades, heat pumps keep your home toasty warm even when the temperature drops dramatically. In fact, eight of the major heat pump companies — Bosch, Carrier, Daikin, Johnson Controls, Lennox, Midea, Rheem, and Trane…
The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.
And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
On 6 January 2021, 53 people were arrested in Hong Kong under the National Security Law, including the organisers and candidates in last July’s democratic primaries where over 600,000 Hong Kongers voted for pro-democracy candidates for the upcoming Legislative Council elections. On the morning of 6
A 2026 Airline Water Study released today by the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity reveals that the quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline, and many airlines…
To provide more control and transparency for selfie filters, we created a guide for respecting personal choices around face retouching.
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom. As more companies crack down on browser exten...
When is the output of a copyright-protected software program itself protected by copyright? This is a case of first impression for any court of appeals which is pending at the Ninth Circuit. The case is Design Data Corporation v. Unigate Enterprise, Inc., 14-16701. On 17 October, 2016, counsels for both parties…
Managing millions in Meta ad spend, yet treated like we don't exist. An inside look at how Meta's AI-driven changes are disrupting agencies and advertiser performance.
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because...
Editor’s note: Since we closely follow China and the global nature of tech in general, among other topics related to innovation, here are highlights from a two-hour interview that Ren Zhengfei, the founder and CEO of Huawei (the world’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest…
Many of our founders ask us about how they can donate part of their equity or post exit proceeds, and now we have an answer:Founders Pledge [https://founderspledge.com/]. With Founders Pledge, founders can sign a pledge to donate some portion of their personal equity and then figure out the recipients for the donation…
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How two psychologists teamed up with the CIA to devise a torture program and experiment on human beings.
More Americans disapprove (53%) than approve (37%) of the government program that obtained telephone call logs and Internet communication records. Americans are split on whether leaker Edward Snowden did the right or wrong thing.
Atlassian and Slack have forged a new strategic partnership.
The Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT) — co-created by Mozilla Fellow Emmi Bevensee — provides a free, open, and intuitive way to scrutinize what’s tr…
EVENT TODAY: We're taking this day to educate people about the threats of DRM and the current policy challenges we face around DRM. We just completed a live video discussion at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT to learn more about these fights and what we can do to take back our rights to control over the...
There was a shocking moment in this week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA). Prof. Eric Goldman had just pointed out that members of Congress should consider how the bill might affect hundreds of small Internet startups, not just giant companies...
Whilst the European Parliament has been fighting bravely for the rights of everyone in the EU to exist freely and with dignity in publicly accessible spaces, the government of Portugal is attempting to push their country in the opposite direction: one of digital authoritarianism. The Portuguese lead organisation in…
