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Will the future of work be ethical?

Will tomorrow’s leaders, despite good and ethical intentions, ultimately use their high-tech tools to exploit others ever more efficiently, or to find a better path forward?

‘Am I as brave as I think I am?’ MIT Media Lab student Arwa Mboya on the aftermath of a scandal

It’s been another hard week at MIT. Our campus has been divided by revelations of inappropriate fundraising, coverups, and the harboring of far too many tech geniuses who seemingly put their own int

The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to ‘radical courage’, with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya

People win prestigious prizes in tech all the time, but there is something different about The Bold Prize. Unless you’ve been living under a literal or proverbial rock, you’ve probably heard somet

Daily Crunch: Joi Ito resigns from MIT Media Lab

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Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting

Joichi Ito, the embattled director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, has stepped down according to a statement by MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif. The news was first reported by The New York Times, whic

We Have Entered The Golden Age Of Hardware Hacking

Hardware is the new hotness. This has been true for some years now: but today, the acorns planted by Arduino, TechShop, Kickstarter, lean prototyping, etc., are finally beginning to sprout into oaks.

ViKi Raises $4.3 Million from VC All-Stars to Translate the World's Video

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Ask a VC: Is Southeast Asia's Economic Growth for Real This Time? [TCTV]

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Shutterfly Buys Tiny Pictures For A Tiny Price

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/Tiny-215x128.jpg" width="215" height="128" /> After raising a total of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tiny-pictures">$11.2 millio