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Kentaro Toyama is a computer scientist who studies the relationship between technology and global development. He is the W. K. Kellogg Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and author of "Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology." Toyama spoke to WEMU’s Caroline MacGregor about artificial intelligence researchers' concerns that AI could be the apocalypse that ends humanity — something pre-eminent British Professor Stephen Hawking also expressed concerns about before he died.

January 28th is World Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness about how we can control access to our private information. The University of Michigan is…

With millions of users, the social media site Facebook has been under scrutiny recently after it was learned they were monetizing user data. WEMU's Lisa…

You see it or experience it more and more: cell phones at the dinner table.A new study from U of M explores how people use their mobile phones during…