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Aunt Jemima Logo to Change A few months ago, btw brought you the story of the Land O’Lakes butter company’s decision to change its logo. The butter logo featured a young Native American woman in a feathered headdress, which many people felt was an offensive racial stereotype. Now, following George Floyd’s death and the protests […]
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Reconsidering Facial Recognition Technology Imagine that you are accused by law enforcement of a crime you didn’t commit. Imagine that the reason for your arrest is that you were misidentified by flawed facial recognition technology. Following the protests surrounding George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Democrats in Congress have been considering widespread police reform. One of […]
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George Floyd’s Death Spurs Public Protests Last week, a 46-year-old Minneapolis man named George Floyd was killed by police officers. Floyd–who was unarmed–was handcuffed and made to lie face-down on the street while an officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck. Bystander video of the incident shows Floyd begging for the officer to stop […]
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Batterygate Were you an iPhone user before 2018? If so, did you find that your phone slowed down dramatically, or turned off unexpectedly? You’re not alone. Turns out, Apple deliberately slowed down the processors of iPhone6s, iPhone7, and the original iPhoneSE without notifying its customers that it was doing so. This slowing down is called […]
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Census Count Delayed? Because you’ve been reading btw this year, you know how important the U.S. Census is. Aside from being mandated by the Constitution, this national headcount is used to determine everything from an area’s congressional representatives to the number of electoral votes each state receives. The federal government uses this count to draw […]
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Ireland Pays Back an Old Favor One of the silver linings to the global COVID-19 pandemic is all of the stories of strangers reaching out to help one another. One great example of this is the country of Ireland, which has provided nearly $1.5 million in donations to the Navajo Nation to assist Navajo and […]
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Children in Spain Return Outdoors No doubt about it, shelter-in-place and social distancing orders are challenging. Many of us miss our friends, classmates, and participating in the activities we once loved and perhaps took for granted. But in many other places in the world, you’d face even harsher restrictions than you do in the United […]
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Dancing in the Street One of the most interesting developments to come out of the COVID-19 crisis is the effect that social distancing has had on the environment. All over the world, as businesses shut down and traffic disappears, cities have seen decreasing levels of air pollution and improved water quality. But that’s not all. […]
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Voting: She’s Got a Plan for That It seems that there’s no area of our lives that the global COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t touched–and that includes voting. In the wake of the outbreak, several states were forced to make decisions about postponing or altering their voting system in order to keep people safe from infection. Often, […]
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Coronavirus and Unemployment It’s no surprise that all of the shutdowns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a lot of people are out of work. But what exactly do those numbers look like? Unfortunately, they’re not good. In fact, in the last two weeks in the United States, nearly ten million people filed for unemployment […]