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In June, the Supreme Court ruled that a group of banking-related software patents were invalid. The ruling was received with as much excitement as its bland description suggests. The case in question was between two banking institutions, Alice Corpor...

Innovation in a Digital World: Stealing Software

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that a group of banking-related software patents were invalid. The ruling was received with as much excitement as its bland description suggests. The case in question was between two banking institutions, Alice Corpor...

Art by Kristine Mar. Demos kratia, Greek for “people rule,” better known as “democracy” in English, has meant various things for various peoples, but today we widely value it as consent of the governed. A fundamental tenet of American...

Democracy at Your Fingertips

Art by Kristine Mar. Demos kratia, Greek for “people rule,” better known as “democracy” in English, has meant various things for various peoples, but today we widely value it as consent of the governed. A fundamental tenet of American...

Art by Soraya Ferdman. Facebook statuses, tweets and Instagram posts have all been credited as by-products of a new, stream of consciousness, millennial culture prone to over-sharing and broadcasting “inappropriate” behavior. However, a new wave ...

The Advent of the Edited Celebrity

Art by Soraya Ferdman. Facebook statuses, tweets and Instagram posts have all been credited as by-products of a new, stream of consciousness, millennial culture prone to over-sharing and broadcasting “inappropriate” behavior. However, a new wave ...

“We adopted a boy from Guatemala who is 7 years old…and he has attachment issues…Today was the last straw — he is just getting worse and worse. We must dissolve this adoption for our sanity!” This is a direct quotation from “Adopting-from...

Re-Homing: a Virtual Black Market for Adoption

“We adopted a boy from Guatemala who is 7 years old…and he has attachment issues…Today was the last straw — he is just getting worse and worse. We must dissolve this adoption for our sanity!” This is a direct quotation from “Adopting-from...

There’s a pretty good chance I’m being tracked by the NSA. After some questionable Google searches for this article, some in-depth readings on anonymity browsers, and an accidental download of a view at your own risk PDF entitled “Basically eve...

Shining Light on the Dark Web

There’s a pretty good chance I’m being tracked by the NSA. After some questionable Google searches for this article, some in-depth readings on anonymity browsers, and an accidental download of a view at your own risk PDF entitled “Basically eve...

Art by Julia Rosenfield. A riddle: An award-winning journalist with his own CNN segment and Washington Post column is accused of plagiarism. The accusers claim that for over 20 years of his career, the journalist has paraphrased, improperly quoted or...

The Media’s New Clothes

Art by Julia Rosenfield. A riddle: An award-winning journalist with his own CNN segment and Washington Post column is accused of plagiarism. The accusers claim that for over 20 years of his career, the journalist has paraphrased, improperly quoted or...

Few things in this country are ever neutral. Surprisingly, the Internet seems to be one of the few. It is the platform on which opinions are expressed, ideas are disseminated and passions run awry. The World Wide Web is an embodiment of modernity. It...

Land of the Free, Home of the Neutral

Few things in this country are ever neutral. Surprisingly, the Internet seems to be one of the few. It is the platform on which opinions are expressed, ideas are disseminated and passions run awry. The World Wide Web is an embodiment of modernity. It...

Art by Kwang Choi. Buddy Cianci has dominated Providence politics ever since first being elected mayor in 1974. For the past 40 years, Cianci has influenced the city’s politics from in and out of City Hall — even from federal prison. There are tw...

Can Buddy Cianci Survive in the Age of Buzzfeed?

Art by Kwang Choi. Buddy Cianci has dominated Providence politics ever since first being elected mayor in 1974. For the past 40 years, Cianci has influenced the city’s politics from in and out of City Hall — even from federal prison. There are tw...

The Internet has democratized information. Websites have effectively eradicated the barriers to access that once prevented individuals from obtaining the information that is readily accessible today. In theory, Google is available to anyone, rich or ...

Pitfalls of the Blogosphere

The Internet has democratized information. Websites have effectively eradicated the barriers to access that once prevented individuals from obtaining the information that is readily accessible today. In theory, Google is available to anyone, rich or ...