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Coders jailed for VW catalytic converter exploit.
A couple of years ago, a reader took issue with a column on cybersecurity. Why are we...
Artificial intelligence is becoming a greater part of our daily lives, but the technologies can contain dangerous biases and assumptions—and we're only beginning to understand the consequences.
The parallel rise of pervasive data collection platforms and computational methods for collecting, analyzing, and drawing inferences from large quantities of us...
Discussions of predictive algorithms used by the police tend to assume the police are merely end users of big data. Accordingly, police departments are consumer
The Value-Added Model has done more to confuse and oppress than to motivate.
An armed man walks into a pizzeria. Terrified customers gather their children and rush out. But the man is there hoping to protect children. That is a true story. However, the armed man was in the pizza place, in early December, because of a fake news story—or, to put it more accurately, because of misinformation [...]
Maybe I was only in the eighth grade, but I was ready to stand up to anyone who tried to threaten the ideal of intellectual freedom.
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating our daily lives, with applications that curate your phone pics, manage your email, and translate text from any language into another. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft are all heavily researching how to integrate AI into their major services. Soon you’ll likely interact…
Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they’re wrong – and sometimes they are designed to deceive
Quizzes have captivated people for decades, but their newfound popularity online makes them dangerous.
Don't lie with design. It's not okay.
Writings about libraries, technology, and the Web by Matthew Reidsma.
A designer is first and foremost a human being.
Opinion: The lesson of Uber is that we get the companies and the economy we ask for.