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Tag: Smartphone

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Samsung Comes Clean About Blood Metal

The world’s best-selling smartphone manufacturer has acknowledged using tin sourced from Indonesia’s controversial Bangka Island, where an investigation last year found that unregulated mining employs child laborers and kills an estimated 150 miners every year while destroying the local environment.

Posted on Apr 25, 2013 READ MORE

BlackBerry 10

Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —

Posted on Feb 1, 2013 READ MORE

Cellphone Prison

Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —

Posted on Jan 31, 2013 READ MORE

Class vs. Race

These may be the first elections in which class will carry more weight than race; the “right to be forgotten” threatens freedom of speech on the Internet; meanwhile, some smartphone voice recognition software is racist and sexist. These discoveries and more after the jump.

Posted on Feb 14, 2012 READ MORE

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Welcome to Alphaville, Avoid the Ghetto

By Aram Sinnreich —

The world we see through our smartphones is a curated world, and its horizons are constricting, rather than expanding.

Posted on Jan 13, 2012 READ MORE | 30 COMMENTS

EU Battles Extremes

The EU decides to address far-right extremism; education fails to solve poverty and inequality, while Netflix may destroy TV networks. These discoveries and more after the jump.