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Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that ...
Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.
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,” ...
New rules requiring donated livers to be offered for transplant hundreds of miles away have benefited patients in New York, California, and more than a dozen other states at the expense of patients in ...
Split Screen cannot reverse-engineer Facebook’s recommendation algorithm, and none of our observations should be treated as causal claims that Facebook has targeted a specific piece of content at a ...
Locked Out Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back Federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself "at the expense of renters who ...
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Dark Patterns that Mislead Consumers Are All Over the Internet Think you can tell a dark pattern from an ethically designed prompt? Take our quiz to find out By Alfred Ng and Sam Morris ...
News Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Algorithms Governments increasingly use algorithms to do everything from assign benefits to dole out punishment—but attempts to regulate them have been unsuccessful ...