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|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

The female patient, suffering from a life-threatening illness, had to be turned away and died after the ambulance carrying her was diverted. If the investigation leads to a prosecution, it would be the first confirmed case in which a person has died as the direct consequence of a cyberattack.




|| Future of Work || Blog Post || Medium (5-10 min)

This article summarizes the worries from the findings of multiple studies around the impact of tech on future of work, and discusses how these changes might impact politics as the number of jobs being taken over increases.




|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

The remarkable convergence of advances in bioengineering and neurology has resulted in a fast-developing way to treat chronic diseases, known as bioelectronic medicine, which allow scientists to identify specific nerves and implant devices that can be activated when needed to stimulate or dial down their activity; that in turn controls cells in organs targeted by those nerves that regulate the body’s many immune and metabolic responses.




|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.




|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

Accusations of unfairness over this year's A-level results in England have focused on an "algorithm" for deciding results of exams cancelled by the pandemic.




|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.




|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

The ride-sharing giant was the subject of a withering report, but its values and its hard-driven C.E.O. remain in place.




|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

When Google forced out two well-known artificial intelligence experts, a long-simmering research controversy burst into the open.




|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Long (10+ min)

A case involving a biased computer program designed to assign sentences.