Tag: politics

• This Is Not the End of Cities

  August 2, 2020

  Both the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement create opportunities to reshape cities in more equitable ways. As overwhelming as the current overlapping crises may seem now, cities have… more ›

• Microsoft’s astonishing climate change goals, explained

  August 1, 2020

  You could be forgiven for missing it, given the surplus of news, but the past few years have seen a profusion of climate change commitments from big tech companies. Facebook,… more ›

• Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes

  August 1, 2020

  When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable. A video frame captured in Hong Kong in August 2019 shows a group… more ›

• India, Jio, and the Four Internets

  July 26, 2020

  One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s… more ›

• Special Report: Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen

  July 21, 2020

  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The young technician shut off the electricity at a cellular tower in rural Mexico to begin some routine maintenance. Within 10 minutes, he had company: three… more ›

• Homeland Security Worries Covid-19 Masks Are Breaking Facial Recognition, Leaked Document Shows

  July 18, 2020

  While doctors and politicians still struggle to convince Americans to take the barest of precautions against Covid-19 by wearing a mask, the Department of Homeland Security has an opposite concern,… more ›

• Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Discrimination for LGBTQIA+ Community Worldwide

  July 16, 2020

  Recorded Future investigated data security risks associated with multiple social and dating apps that are popular with the LGBTQIA+ community, and how those apps were being discussed on dark web… more ›

• Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier

  July 16, 2020

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as… more ›

• The Bling Dynasty

  July 15, 2020

  “Luxury in China is not frivolous. It is not superficial. Luxury is a tool of success on the battlefield of life.” – Tom Doctoroff, CEO J.W.T. Asia Pacific The Chinese… more ›

• Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology

  July 15, 2020

  What ideology guides the star of rising Chinese power? General Secretary Xi Jinping’s answer to this question is unequivocal: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, not any other ‘ism.’” Xi… more ›