Abstract Self-driving cars are no longer confined to the realm of sci-fi; a variety of autonomous vehicles are under development by companies around the world.…
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Author: Teagan Ampe
Fines for Fire-Induced Blackouts?
11/2/2020 The California wildfires of October 2019 affected vast swaths of residents, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes and many to lose their…
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The Unnerving Implications of Brain-Computer Interfaces
9/28/2020 Elon Musk has always been one for lofty technological goals, but he’s not always concerned with their societal or ethical implications. During a recent…
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Explaining Artificially Intelligent Decisions
7/27/2020 AI decision-making is everywhere these days. Getting a loan, getting an apartment, getting bail: in all three of these cases, there could be analgorithm taking…
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The Difficulties of Distanced Learning
7/2/2020 Remote learning just isn’t the same. Ask any college student, or really any student who’s old enough to articulate their thoughts and has in…
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Delivery While We’re in Dire Straits
6/1/2020 Despite everything, life goes on: we sleep, we wake up, we check our phones while trying not to think too hard about how large…
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Reopening the Country: When, How, and What’s the Cost?
4/20/2020 It’s the question on everyone’s mind: when will things get back to normal? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t as straightforward as one might hope, and…
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Fake News, Real Effects
3/2/2020 It’s 2020, which means that just like four years ago, we’re again thrust into a massive, messy morass of politics every time we dare…
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How Lab-Grown Brains are Challenging Our Concept of Sentience
10/28/2019 Growing human brains may sound like something out of a mad science movie, but believe it or not, scientists are able to do just…
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