Technology

Controversial Saudi app that allows male guardians to track their wives may actually help some women escape

February 15, 2019

In 2015, the Saudi government launched an app called Abhser — which roughly translates to “yes sir” — that allows men to grant some of those permissions through clicks and swipes. But the app is also helping some Saudi women escape the country.

Technology

A new book suggests AI and robots will take jobs — but make the world better

PRI's The World

February 13, 2019

A new book theorizes that technology will cause a massive upheaval and a loss of jobs at nearly every level — but argues it will ultimately will be better for the world.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Architecture's 'Lego' trend: Build rooms halfway across the world, then snap together

PRI's The World

February 12, 2019

With improved technology and logistics, developers are increasingly turning to a borderless new movement in modular construction, possibly disrupting the hotel and apartment building industry.

Zimbabwe’s internet crackdown shows the ‘economic sabotage’ of shutdowns

GlobalPost

February 12, 2019

The government of Zimbabwe shut down the internet last month to quell dissent. But the move cost the nation $5.7 million per day and set Zimbabwe's growing "technopreneur" business back during the blackout.

Technology

How to build a countrywide AI strategy? Finland is turning its seniors into evangelists.

PRI's The World

February 08, 2019

The mentorship program is just one component of Finland’s national AI strategy, which focuses heavily on getting Finns without a technical or computer science background comfortable with AI.

Technology

Germany to restrict Facebook's data gathering activities

Reuters

February 07, 2019

Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its market dominance to gather information about users without their consent.

Why I can’t quit Facebook: I want to click 'love' when I see refugees' big milestones

PRI's The World

February 04, 2019

The World reporter Tania Karas covers global migration and often meets people on the move. Because of Facebook, she's been able to watch the milestones of refugees long after parting ways.

Facebook is a persuasion platform that’s changing the advertising rulebook

The Conversation

February 01, 2019

Facebook has driven an ongoing digital revolution within the advertising industry, redefining the persuasive process advertisers have traditionally known.

An unexpected challenge on Antarctica: Measuring snowfall

PRI's The World

January 29, 2019

The amount of snowfall is an important parameter used in modeling how the Antarctic continent’s mass of ice will change in the coming decades. As the planet warms, the margins of the continent are melting three times faster than just one decade ago.

Technology

Historian: Technology and politics has always been dysfunctional in the US

Innovation Hub

January 23, 2019

Technology has the power to unite — and divide — us. We look back at what history has to say about tech’s long, complicated and troubled relationship with politics.

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