The U.S. has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the world. Cameras are omnipresent on city streets and in…
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Earlier this month, the Internet Archive asked a US court to end a lawsuit filed against it by four large book publishers.…
The COVID-19 pandemic placed enormous pressure on education systems worldwide. At the peak of the crisis, school closures forced over 1.6…
Biology is rich in patterns. You’ll find them everywhere – from the number of petals on a flower (which generally…
We all like to think we’re immune to scams. We scoff at emails from an unknown sender offering us millions,…
When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500…
We’re all familiar with the blissful image of grandma or grandpa playing snakes and ladders with their grandchild – or…
When one of our students told us they were going to drop out of college in August 2021, it wasn’t…
Technology has increasingly blurred the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. This has led to dramatic shifts in daily…
Coined in 1992 by science fiction author Neal Stephenson, the relatively obscure term exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly after…