
An interview, an author, and 500 local innovations
The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
Written by RICH TENORIO Filed Under: A+E, Books
An interview, an author, and 500 local innovations
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
It’s something between ironic and nauseating that Superintendent Tommy Chang and Mayor Marty Walsh are making it look like Verizon, of all entities, is here to save the day.
Written by JONATHAN RILEY Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Softbank, maker of a robot named Pepper that can “read human emotion,” is apparently stepping up its involvement in the AI sector.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
The city should pull out of this incipient arrangement.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Last year the Dig revealed that Xerox left a trove of license plate and home address information exposed online.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Tech
The subterranean MBTA CharlieCard Store is a terrific metaphor for everything that’s wrong with transportation in Boston
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS
With a plethora of neoliberal yuppies populating newsrooms in these parts, it’s surprising that more journos, from city desks to oped pages, haven’t run the taxi union out of town already.
Written by DAN MCCARTHY Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop
"I see the GeoOrbital wheel not only as a way to get more people into biking, but also as a way to make practical biking the norm, rather than the exception.”
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
“They’re asserting a general police power to capture anybody’s image and process it for law enforcement purposes just in case they later turn out to be guilty of something. That’s not OK.”