Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data collected ...

Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an ...

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...

This story was published in partnership with Capital B, a local-national nonprofit news organization that centers Black voices, audience needs and experiences, and partners with the communities it ...

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...

For many people, an app malfunctioning is scarcely more than an annoyance. But for a Honduran immigrant living in Pennsylvania, a recent glitch elicited fears about the worst-case scenario: that it ...

Burglary and domestic assault in Minnesota. Selling meth and jumping bail in Kentucky. Driving without insurance in Arkansas. Disorderly conduct. Theft. Lying to a police officer. Unspecified “crimes.

Meet Bùi Như Mai, a 67-year-old Vietnamese grandmother who is also a YouTube influencer. “I didn’t think I was going to be a YouTube newscaster at the age of 67. But these days you will often see me ...

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...

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During the second half of our junior year of high school, we were shocked to learn about an algorithm called the Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS) that our home state of Wisconsin had been using to ...

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 ...