Technology

September 12, 2019

Facebook and others are stepping up to stop the spread of disinformation online in advance of Canada's federal parliamentary elections.

Displacement

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

PRI's The World

September 11, 2019

Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.

Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook

PRI's The World

September 10, 2019

What happens to the highly personal data people enter in period-tracking apps? In some cases, it gets fed to third parties — including Facebook.

Science & Technology

In a world of cyberthreats, the push for cyberpeace is growing

The Conversation

September 04, 2019

Dozens of countries and hundreds of firms and nonprofits are fed up with digital violence. They are working toward greater cybersecurity for all — and even what might be called cyberpeace.

Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier

Antarctic robot might lead way to life beyond Earth

PRI's The World

September 02, 2019

An undersea robot in Antarctica might help us explore life beyond Earth — and understand the physics of glacier collapse.

Science & Technology

Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs?

PRI's The World

August 21, 2019

Robots have replaced millions of American workers. As humanoid robots improve, will they work alongside people — or replace them?

Science & Technology

A cyberattack could wreak destruction comparable to a nuclear weapon

The Conversation

August 16, 2019

While nuclear war is a danger most people are aware of, cyber attacks could potentially be just as dangerous. Find out how escalating attacks on vulnerable infrastructure have some experts worried.

Social media

Hong Kong protesters challenge surveillance with apps and umbrellas

PRI's The World

August 14, 2019

Protesters organize via forums and apps while demanding something that many 19th-century era demonstrators wanted: universal suffrage.

Conflict

Yemeni women activists escape war with the help of a global, underground network

GlobalPost

July 29, 2019

Targeted with arbitrary arrests and detentions in Yemen, women activists escape through Peace Track Initiative, a coordinated network of support that takes referrals on a case-by-case basis depending on the gravity of the threat.

Conflict & Justice

What Western media got wrong about China’s social credit system

PRI's The World

July 29, 2019

Much of the Western media narrative on China's social credit system has been outright false. As part of a collaboration between Wired magazine and The World, we take a look at what the system actually looks like, and how it really works.

Technology

'Straight-up debunking': How a fact-checker vets fake news

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook

In a world of cyberthreats, the push for cyberpeace is growing

Antarctic robot might lead way to life beyond Earth

Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs?

A cyberattack could wreak destruction comparable to a nuclear weapon

Hong Kong protesters challenge surveillance with apps and umbrellas

Yemeni women activists escape war with the help of a global, underground network

What Western media got wrong about China’s social credit system

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