Beijing hopes its social credit system will quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit too.

Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy.

Israel plans to combine HMOs’ digital health records that cover most Israelis into a single system for AI and data analytics to tap.
In a small country with digitized records, big data could make medicine cheaper and more effective.

A conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, MIT, and reputation laundering.

The speech given by 2019 Barlow/Pioneer award winner Danah Boyd about reckoning with how she benefited from men whose actions have helped uphold a patriarchal system that has hurt so many people.

The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of automated Twitter accounts -- or "bots" -- pushing messages in a coordinated manner, an increasingly common practice to manipulate public opinion by creating the false impression that many people are talking about a particular subject. The method is also known as "astroturfing".

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned.The attacks work by exploiting an interface intended to be used solely by cell carriers so they can communicate directly with the SIM cards inside subscribers’ phones.

A feature on MIT's Media Lab, including an agricultural project involving food computers.