With popular puzzle game Wordle’s transition to the New York Times, users have become frustrated with the once beloved game.
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Author: Isabel Brieler
SpaceX and Amazon’s Starlink Spat
In the most recent update to SpaceX and Amazon’s ongoing conflict over the proposed Starlink Satellite Internet plan, Amazon has requested further delays to SpaceX’s launch schedule in order to “allow for more thorough analysis.”
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Into the Metaverse: Facebook’s Big Rebrand
Facebook’s rebrand as Meta signals the beginning of a new era for the tech giant, but is it all just a distraction from the company’s recent negative press?
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Sacrificing the Innocent in the Battle Against Climate Change
President Biden is pushing for the implementation of CO2 pipelines to help decrease emissions, but if they come at the cost of the disadvantaged communities they travel through, are they worth it?
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A Responsible Rollout of the COVID-19 Vaccines
The CDC and FDA have recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over concerns about rare blood-clotting side effects, but given its wide-reaching consequences, was this an ethical decision?
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The Implications of the Suez Canal Crisis
A single ship has blocked a canal that handles 30% of the globe’s shipping traffic for days (and at the time of writing, is still stuck there). Does this have larger implications for the way the world currently approaches manufacturing and globalization?
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Implications of Interplanetary Translocation
The recent successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars gives us cause to consider the extent to which we are ethically obligated to prevent the “contamination” of other planets with earthly life.
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How Apps are Influencing Reddit’s War with Wall Street
2/1/2021 While 2020 was undoubtedly a strange year for the stock market, with industries swinging unprecedentedly up and down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, January…
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Tech Companies Accruing Monopolies that Harken Back to the Days of “Oil Barons and Railroad Tycoons”
10/26/2020 A sixteen-month investigation into tech giants including Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google has finally been completed with the filing of a lawsuit against Google by the…
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The Blurred Line Between Corporate and Governmental Interests
9/8/2020 Amazon’s Ring home security company is no stranger to controversy. In 2018, it was revealed that footage, both from outside and inside customer’s homes,…
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