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Any tech-enthusiasts knows the scene: It's 10pm, you just got delivered your newest gadget and now you are staring directly at a monster made of cable. The challenge is on: How do you plug in this new gadget, avoid this monster while not getting trapped or even swallowed by it??
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At what point does sensibly protecting one’s privacy become paranoia or worse, simply pointless? We talked to security expert James Bore to find out.
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Join TEC on a private tour of Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies (known as PADT), an industrial 3D printing facility, on Tuesday, September 24th at 5:30 p.m.
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It's August and there's lots going on in addition to our standing monthly events, our Right to Repair Workshop and Privacy PIE meetup. We've also got an upcoming tech field trip, a survey to determine future actually useful workshops TEC, a hilarious programming blog-rant
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Early in my career I did experience the assumption that I was participating in a meeting to take notes. To which my response was, "I am here as an engineer to share in the discussions."
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This article is from our Good Tech News Newsletter - covering some of the best tech that furthers humanity.
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This article is from our AZ Tech Law & Policy Newsletter - covering technology law and policy news that directly impacts Arizonans.
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If you’re the kind of person who would have backed Nicola Tesla over Thomas Edison, or someone who remains puzzled as to why we’re not all using Linux, this list is for you.
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How our willingness to give up privacy paves the way for self-suppression
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We hear a lot about passwords these days. What we don’t get is an explanation of what passwords actually are and the underpinnings of how they work.
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How adding scarcity to digital and other post-scarcity environments creates problems and suffering.
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The inadvertent consequence of well-intentioned technology
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How the EARN IT act weakens encryption protections under the pretense of child safety
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Properties of the Next Internet The internet is the most powerful communication system ever invented by humanity. Unfortunately, it was never completed. The missing parts have allowed the internet to become diseased with constant security threats and privacy invasions, with no way to stop or even slow the progression of
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One of the benefits of 2020 was it gave us the opportunity to investigate how we do things in technology education (admittedly whether we wanted to or not). Social distancing requirements forced technology teachers to try new approaches and some definitely worked better than others.
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While the internet is inarguably the greatest invention in human telecommunication to date, its early idealism and utopian promise has given way to a profit-driven, algorithmically manipulated echo chamber that is starting to cause harm in the real world. Can we restore the internet’s promise?