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Ten answers that could save a life: Organ donation explained

This article is part of “On Borrowed Time” a series by Anissa Durham that examines the people, policies, and systems that hurt or help Black patients in need of an organ transplant. Teenagers aren’t ...
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Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste

New rules requiring donated livers to be offered for transplant hundreds of miles away have benefited patients in New York, California, and more than a dozen other states at the expense of patients in ...
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See the Neighborhoods Internet Providers Excluded from Fast Internet

Sources The Markup analysis of a 10 percent random sample of addresses served by AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon in each city; U.S. Census Bureau, Mapping Inequality Speed of base internet offer at $55 ...
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He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None

On a recent Monday, Eric Natividad woke up around 8 a.m., showered, ate breakfast, and braced himself for a day of being tracked. Natividad, 32, is a student at Mt. San Antonio College, which is one ...
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How We Built a Real-time Privacy Inspector

We updated Blacklight to continue accurate detection of Google Analytics tracking. Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing ...
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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...
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Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...
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The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

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Dozens of Mortgage Lenders Showed Significant Disparities. Here Are the Worst

For years, research and reporting has found that mortgage lenders overall deny people of color more often than White applicants. The industry’s longtime argument is that the lending gap can be ...
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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook

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