Technology
Documenting my transition away from Google’s search engine
November 9, 2025Discussing all the reasons to boycott Google would take an entire article, but the tech giant’s involvement in violent state surveillance projects is reason enough. Project Nimbus is their artificial intelligence project that provides the Israeli government with surveillance data on Palestinians as it carries out a genocide in Gaza. More recently, Google Cloud invested billions in partnering with war contractor Lockheed Martin to provide AI surveillance along the Mexico-US border wall. With bothersome “AI Overviews” now embedded in search results, the depletion of fossil fuels is increasing exponentially, and so is environmental racism — a systemic issue where racialized…
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Facial recognition technology has gone too far
January 17, 2025Facial recognition technology (FRT) is a type of artificial intelligence that identifies people by their unique facial features. It’s being used for everything from unlocking your phone, making purchases, and boarding passes. Our province uses the BC Services Card app…
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Paige Smith explores unknown insides in Black Box Investigations
September 26, 2023Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is an exciting time of year. From September 28–October 8, the latest exceptional films all over Vancouver, showcasing local and global talent. Among the selection of 140 films stands SFU alum Paige Smith’s Black Box…
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Open letter demands protection for BC’s platform-based workers
July 14, 2023On June 19, BC’s branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), and the Centre for Future Work, released a letter pushing for better protection policies for gig workers. The letter was written by members of the CCPA and…
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Who is exploited under the development of AI?
May 30, 2023Content warning: mentions of sexual exploitation of women and children, revenge pornography, racism What infuriates me about conversations revolving around artificial intelligence (AI) is how content we are with how much it costs us. The ethical risks associated with AI…
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Impacts of biowearables on children
January 18, 2022Researchers at SFU’s Tangible Embodied Child-Computer Interaction Lab (TECI) are concerned with the ethical effects of biowearables on children. Biowearables refer to apps or wearable devices that track data from the body, such as Fitbit watches. TECI researchers are strongly…
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SFU researcher aims to advance existing technology to combat climate change
November 20, 2021Sami Khan, an assistant professor at SFU’s School of Sustainable Engineering, aims to combat the climate crisis by researching ways to improve existing energy systems. Khan directs the research group, Engineered Interfaces for Sustainable Energy (EISEn), in using chemistry and…
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Dr. Ryan D’Arcy aids brain recovery with Project Iron Soldier
November 13, 2020A study led by SFU applied sciences professor Ryan D’Arcy and an SFU team of researchers spearheaded Project Iron Soldier. The project surrounds Captain Trevor Greene, a retired veteran who was hit in the back of the head by an…
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What Grinds Our Gears: I’m out-pacing my computer with these datasets
June 14, 2020As I am writing this, my laptop is labouriously trying to load some data files for a class. And it is taking forever. Seriously? I am not a Big Data person or some hot shot researcher. Why am I being…
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SFU Snap has so much potential, but its bugs need to be fixed first
September 15, 2019Oh, SFU Snap. This app tries its best, but has fallen short so much that it’s often my last resort instead of being my go-to app for SFU content. I want to be able to check my class locations and…
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