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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Automated Censorship Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s More Than Just Shadowbanning on Instagram An investigation by The Markup found that the platform demoted images of the Israel–Hamas war, ...

Before February 2020, physical proximity was one of the most important factors in determining who got a new liver. The previous system divided the country into dozens of “donation service areas,” each ...