Enemy in Our Homes

Joseph Clark Staff Writer There has been no other time in education’s history in which students have been asked to surrender as much of their privacy as they have now. Initiated by a desire to streamline learning and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, overreliance, or use at all of the “proctoring browser” is an attack on students’ personal space, as well as an open invitation … Continue reading Enemy in Our Homes

Is Data The Next Form of Currency?

Ethan Beaulieu Staff Writer In an age of increasingly targeted advertising, a cafe takes a step to further in the path of data mining. Shiru cafe has now opened its first United States location, adding to the over twenty stores it has in Japan and India. Shiru cafe in Providence Rhode Island, near Brown University, isn’t what you’d expect of a standard college town coffee … Continue reading Is Data The Next Form of Currency?