With their competitive advantage in emerging technologies like AI and machine learning, big tech companies have been moving into and disrupting traditional industries, from Airbnb’s impact on the ...

Almost every news cycle delivers headlines alerting readers to yet another tech transgression. In each case, by the time an issue is reported, damage has already been done. Since the founding of early ...

Throughout 2025, Computer Weekly’s technology and ethics coverage highlighted the human and socio-technical impacts of ...

A customer (L) is greeted by Apple employees as she enters the Hong Kong Apple store to get an iPhone 5 on September 21, 2012. Apple's iPhone 5 hit stores in Hong Kong with queues of devotees ...

The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to ...

In May 2021, Twitter user @capohai shared a screenshot of a Google search for “what do terrorists wear on their head,” which returned, as the first result, the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf. At the same ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In September last year, Google's cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to. It turned down the client's idea ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In September last year, Google’s cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to. It turned down the client’s idea after ...

In the last couple of years, we’ve seen new teams in tech companies emerge that focus on responsible innovation, digital well-being, AI ethics or humane use. Whatever their titles, these individuals ...

At 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Professor Casey Fiesler and PhD student Natalie Garrett meet with CU Boulder’s Ethics in Computing Fellows. These women work together conducting research in Ethics through CU’s ...

We are worried. Some of the things we worry about are the same as everyone else who is trying to imagine the impact of emerging technologies on our lives. We worry about how smartphones are consuming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brooke Roberts-Islam is a London-based writer covering sustainability. Techfestival, the annual summit funded by the Danish ...