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Document: What Chinese Officials Told Children Whose Families Were Put in Camps
This document, part of 403 pages obtained by The New York Times, tells Chinese officials in Xinjiang how to explain the disappearance of parents and families detained in camps built to hold Muslim minorities. Anguished students asking about their...
5 Takeaways From the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims
Hundreds of pages of internal papers offer new insight into how the program began, how it was justified even as the damage it caused was clear, and how some officials resisted it.
Disinfo Wars: a taxonomy of information warfare
The problem of misinformation – which inspired our Truth, Trust and Technology Commission – continues to be an issue that attracts widespread concern, particularly its effect on electio…
Jobs and Internships
Amazing Research Associate – Minneapolis, MN Office The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is looking for an amazing, full-time Research Associate to join its Energy Democracy Initiative. Our ideal candidate is: A relentless seeker of data, unafraid...
Moonshot: The Astros' Sign-Stealing Left A Fingerprint In The Audio Data
They cheated early and accurately.
What Google Isn’t Saying About Your Health Records
The parts of the Google-Ascension deal that are secret are likely designed to misdirect attention away from the intellectual property value of the business relationship.
The worst news from NAEP
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Education released the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Although, as Professor Marty West put it wryly on the Fordham Podcast, at this point it perhaps should be renamed the...
Activists in Jumpsuits Are Scanning the Faces of DC Residents With Amazon Tech
“The action will show that facial recognition surveillance is dangerous both when algorithms work and when they don’t.”
The architecture of collaboration
Firms increasingly face competitive pressures related to rapid and continuous adaptation to a complex, dynamic, and highly interconnected global environment. Pressing challenges include keeping pace ...
Building better online communities
UW researcher uses high-performance computing to understand how online communities work — and just maybe how to keep them from sliding into oligarchy
2019.11.14 CyberMed - Cyber informed consent Andy/Meg
Cybersecurity Informed Consent (CIC) Meg Doerr and Andy Coavos CyberMed Summit November 14, 2019
An unprecedented study suggests the Apple Watch can help detect heart problems. But very few people actually used it to do that.
The Apple Watch can detect heart problems like afib, according to a recent study. But few of the participants actually finished, suggesting there's work to be done in digital health.
Effect of a Home-Based Wearable Electrocardiographic Patch on Detecting Atrial Fibrillation
This randomized clinical trial and matched cohort study compares the effects of immediate vs delayed use of a self-applied adhesive continuous ECG monitoring patch on new diagnoses of atrial fibrillation in patients at high risk of atrial...
Former Olympian Champions Digital Health
Former Olympic rower Jennifer Goldsack is the Executive Director of the Digital Medicine Society, a company that is driving the use of digital medicine in he...
How Amazon Rigs Its Shopping Algorithm -
For companies that sell on Amazon’s platform, “winning the Buy Box”—the area on the right-hand side of the page that says “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now”—is everything. While Amazon says it’s a neutral arbiter, there is ample evidence that the company...
A kinder research culture is possible
Wellcome is right to call out hyper-competitiveness in research and question the focus on excellence. But other funders must follow its move.
These Black Women Are Fighting For Justice In A World Of Biased Algorithms
In the latest #BlackWomenIn... we speak with some of the Black women engineers, professors and government experts who are on the front lines of the civil rights movement of our time.
Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
BOSTON—In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional. The...