ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In

Patronscan can help bar owners decide you are too risky for admission

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Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook

Advocates want answers after The Markup found the department sharing student data with Meta

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Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own

During early COVID lockdowns, a teen raised $1.8 million in venture funding and built a web filter with a team of data scientists and psychologists that he now hopes will help students safely surf the web

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Car Insurance, Cats, and Racial Discrimination

Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized

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How to Get a Discount on Your Car Insurance

Step 1: Buy more insurance. Yup, you read that right

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Why Stopping Algorithmic Inequality Requires Taking Race Into Account

Let us explain. With cats

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How We Investigated Car Insurance Loopholes in Michigan

We found that Michigan’s reforms allowed auto insurers to charge higher rates in Black neighborhoods

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Michigan’s “Fair and Reasonable” Reforms Allowed Car Insurers to Charge More in Black Neighborhoods

An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through

Artificial Intelligence

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless

Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority

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Our Blended Newsroom's Summer Reading List

Chip away at your TBR pile with these recs