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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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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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Our Blended Newsroom's Summer Reading List
Chip away at your TBR pile with these recs
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How California’s ‘once in a century’ broadband investment plan could go wrong
A nearly $2 billion initiative to remedy the digital divide is designed to fail, advocates say
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A New, Dirty Vision for Higher Education
An interview with Julia Schleck, who argues that rather than serving the public good, universities should be a forum to define and debate the public good
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The Secret To Beating Political Disinformation Is Knowing When Not To Fact-Check
A conversation with Sasha Issenberg about his book on how to win elections in the new normal of omnipresent fake news
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Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International "Data Cartels"
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk
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This Journalism Professor Made a NYC Chatbot in Minutes. It Actually Worked
Jonathan Soma on the power and pitfalls of AI and chatbots
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The Affordable Connectivity Program Was a Connectivity Lifeline for Millions. Congress Is Letting It Die
More than half of the House supports a bill to extend funds. But it can’t get out of committee
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Why Governments Need To Take a More Active Role in Regulating AI
Christelle Tessono talks with the Markup about how AI systems are still mostly monitored by the companies that build them
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