A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

Machine Learning Prison inmates can take college classes, but often with no internet and limited tech Students regularly face dead ends, even with access to technology and research resources By Tara ...

Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off? If you live in the U.S. or Canada, the answer is probably yes By Sam Morris September 3, 2020 08:00 ET Updated September 3, 2020 11:47 ET Want a great ...

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For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...

For many students, that’s not a problem. They generally trust their institutions and see the online elements of higher education as convenient. Putting up with data collection seems like a necessary ...

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Banned Bounty Labeled “Research” Chemicals, Doping Drugs Sold Openly on Amazon.com Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance ...

Locked Out Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back Federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of renters who ...

Dark Patterns that Mislead Consumers Are All Over the Internet Think you can tell a dark pattern from an ethically designed prompt? Take our quiz to find out By Alfred Ng and Sam Morris ...

Still Loading See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet Explore The Markup’s interactive map to see where AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon offered only slow internet speeds in ...