Category - Technology

Who controls the internet? Increasingly, the answer is large corporations and governments — a trend that’s threatening digital privacy...

Adults tend to think of kids as “future citizens” — their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up...

How does Hollywood choose what stories get told on-screen? Too often, it’s groupthink informed by a narrow set of ideas about what sells at the...

Özlem Cekic’s email inbox has been full of hate mail since 2007, when she won a seat in the Danish Parliament — becoming the first female...

Seemingly pointless scientific research can lead to extraordinary discoveries, says physicist Suzie Sheehy. In a talk and tech demo, she shows how...

How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combining...

What if your attachment to being a “good” person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person? In this accessible talk...

Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council...

Taking lessons from a historical pattern called “Thucydides’s Trap,” political scientist Graham Allison shows why a rising China...

Technology architect Fadi Chehadé helped set up the infrastructure that makes the internet work — essential things like the domain name system...