Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is giving her privacy agency bill another try. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The FTC currently enforces federal privacy laws. Gillibrand doesn’t think it’s enough. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is introducing a...
If you are building applications today, you are probably familiar with the microservices model: Rather than building big monolithic applications, we break services down into isolated components that we can independently update or change over time. Microservices deployments then...
But in the biggest ever study of real-world mortgage data, economists Laura Blattner at Stanford University and Scott Nelson at the University of Chicago show that differences in mortgage approval between minority and majority groups is not just down...
By many metrics, the US is doing relatively well against the pandemic coronavirus. National tallies of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all at lows not seen since early last year. Several states have hit the goal of having 70...
Facebook is expanding its reliance on community moderators. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Nextdoor’s approach to content moderation doesn’t always work. Facebook is becoming a bit more like Nextdoor in an effort to...
Unlike the myriad of new exoplanets we’re identifying every year, when it comes to worlds in the solar system, we have the ability to send probes to these places and study them directly. “We can measure things that would...
Amanda Northrop/Vox Biden and Putin had a long talk about cyberattacks in Wednesday’s meeting. If you found yourself in an hours-long line for expensive gas last month, then you’re probably familiar with the damage that...
What exactly is happening with the oceans? And what can we do to reduce the ever-growing pile of waste created by human activity? These questions are at the center of the two projects that won this year’s STARTS Prize...
Smart data integration can help to increase the quality of data-based decision-making, especially in scenarios where clinical decision-makers face multiple barriers and challenges along the patient pathway. And this is critically important in today’s digitized health-care environment where the...
Amateur investors took the stock market by storm not via Wall Street but via Reddit. Many of them are playing a losing game. Should they be saved from themselves? | Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...


















