Rachel Slade – Medium

Published in GEN

·Sep 13, 2018

The Most Powerful New Voting Bloc in America Doesn’t Vote

Young people have the power to dominate U.S. policy, but they’ve been sidelined for years. Will they vote in November? It depends. — An enormous voting bloc is about to come of age. By 2020, 27 percent of the U.S. electorate — some 54 million people — will be between the ages of 18 and 29. This group, comprising the trailing edge of millennials and the first crop of voting-age Gen Zers, represented…

Politics

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The Most Powerful New Voting Bloc in America Doesn’t Vote

Published in OneZero

·Jul 30, 2018

A New Device Can Hear Your Thoughts

A 24-year-old MIT student has developed wearable tech he can control with his mind. The question is what we’ll do with it. — In early April, MIT research assistant Arnav Kapur, 24, uploaded a short video on YouTube. The clip showed him moving around campus in various settings wearing a white plastic contraption wrapped around the right side of his face. As he walked by rows of bikes parked next to mounds of…

Artificial Intelligence

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