Reality Checks: Operatic Leaks, Going Back to the Moon, Online Safety for Teens that Does not Consult teens, and Wikipedia Battle Bots

Elizabeth — February 28, 2017

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SpaceX claims it will send people to the moon in 2018 (via Ars Technica)
Online safety apps for teens by and large do not involve teens as end users. (via NPR)
Battle of the wikipedia bots. (via Popular Science)
There is a Chelsea Manning-Wikileaks opera! (via NYT)

Featured image credit: Magic Tuba Pixie via flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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Reality Checks: Operatic Leaks, Going Back to the Moon, Online Safety for Teens that Does not Consult teens, and Wikipedia Battle Bots

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