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This week marks the 100th anniversary of the robot. Not any particular technological device or engineering marvel, but the very word and concept.Unlike…
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2020 was a year of loss. But as we look back on the year that was, we can also use this moment as an opportunity to identify what is valuable and what we…
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One consequence of the recent election is renewed scrutiny of digital media.Educating users to be critical consumers of information has always been a…
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Of all the coronavirus conspiracy theories circulating on social media, my favorite has got to be one that says the virus was developed and deployed by…
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The social media platform TikTok is gaining popularity across the internet, but also raising privacy and national security concerns.TikTok is a service…
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Every summer, teachers -- whether primary, secondary, post-secondary or vocational -- face the same question from family, friends, and the public: Don’t…
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There is a patron saint for virtually everything. And now the Internet may be about to get its own.There are two contenders. On the one side, you have St.…
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While the nation’s attention is quite understandably focused on the protests taking place on our city streets, there is another First Amendment struggle…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred efforts to control the spread of the virus through development of innovative digital contact tracing tools. In…
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Due to the corona virus, all schools have suspended face-to-face instruction and are in the process of moving everything to online delivery. At NIU,…