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Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

For many students, that’s not a problem. They generally trust their institutions and see the online elements of higher education as convenient. Putting up with data collection seems like a necessary ...

The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look By Colin Lecher ...

Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing the web. Users type a URL into Blacklight, and it visits the requested website, ...

ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In Patronscan can help bar owners decide you are too risky for admission By Malena Carollo ...

Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off? If you live in the U.S. or Canada, the answer is probably yes By Sam Morris September 3, 2020 08:00 ET Updated September 3, 2020 11:47 ET Want a great ...

For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...

Over the past six years, a little-known private equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, has built an educational software empire that wields unseen influence over the educational journeys of tens of ...

This article is a collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Facebook is collecting ultrasensitive personal data about abortion seekers and enabling anti-abortion ...

Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...