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China: Technosphere provides a biweekly deep-dive into China’s technological control at home and influence abroad.

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Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic, author, and host of Tech Won’t Save Us.

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Tech industry’s past focus on cyberattacks and natural disasters overshadowed threats of physical attacks.

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To the International Telecommunication Union and the international Internet community, When the internet is shut down, gunfire begins. People of Iran are once again on the streets, risking their li...

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The political, economic, and social power of many Big Tech firms, along with their vast userbases, has often been compared to nation-states. While existing anal...

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We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu

In the Working group Critical Data & Surveillance Studies at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C³S) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, which focuses on geographical, political, and/o...

The Dark Academia Aesthetic is a mysterious, alluring style that has been around for centuries, but has recently been popularized by mass media. Its name may

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China has exported its village surveillance model to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where Chinese police are piloting fingerprint and data collection to curb social unrest, officials and locals confirmed to Reuters.

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