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One of America’s finest food traditions is about to get more convenient than ever: Girl Scouts have have been given the go ahead to sell their cookies online. The tradition, which is now almost 100 years old, churns out over 200 million boxes of deliciousness per year—but until now it’s
Even students at the world’s finest universities can struggle to make it to class. At Harvard, university officials initiated a controversial research program that saw cameras secretly installed in lecture halls just to keep tabs on student attendance. The program, which was kept secret from p
“Your cellphone doesn’t just make phone calls, why should our benches just be seats?” This is a statement made by Boston’s Mayor, Martin J. Walsh, when he unveiled that the city would soon start seeing “smart” benches making its rounds. This new initiative is called Soofas and basically what they do
Privacy advocates scored a major victory in Boston this week when the city’s police department announced it would indefinitely suspend its use of automated license plate readers. The 14 devices currently in use let the BPD scan as many as four million vehicles a year, compiling the resulting date, t
