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Massive Open Online Courses and Beyond: the Revolution to Come
Massive Open Online Courses might democratize and open higher education but are problematic with regard to deskilling academic labor.
Automated Teaching Machine: A Graphic Introduction to the End of Human Teachers
While the corporate media hails the automation of education as another sign of progress toward a techno-utopia, readers gain another perspective in this nonfiction comic that asks,
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The Coming Cyber-Cold War: US Pioneering Online Attacks
Cyber warfare has established itself, and governments are spending billions in researching how best to use it.
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Telecom Companies Implicated in NSA Spying Unite to Lobby Congress on Digital Privacy
The telecom industry launches a lobbying group to advocate for privacy policies.
AT&T Tech Blew the Whistle on NSA Spying – in 2006
Jenny Brown interviews Mark Klein, an AT&T technician who blew the whistle on the NSA in 2006.
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US for First Time Acknowledges Role in Deaths of Americans in Drone Strikes
The Obama administration sought to justify the killing of only one and said nothing about the other three.
Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow
In Californiau2019s Silicon Valley, Facebook, Google and Apple have minted hundreds of new tech millionaires. But not far away, the homeless are building tent cities along a creek in …
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Chris Hedges: The Day That TV News Died
The descent was a gradual slide into the tawdry, the trivial and the inane.
What If a Drone Attacked in the US? A White Paper Justification
If this fictitious Iranian argument for the legality of targeted killing proves specious, then so is the DOJ's.
After Revealing Atrocities of Asymmetrical Warfare, Manning Will Face Asymmetrical Trial
The war against Bradley Manning is a war against us all.