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Po-Shen Loh Takes Action by Developing a COVID Tracking App Nov 30, 2020 | Career | As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, there remains a thirst for solutions. In the frustrating absence of effective solutions and answers from the government, people have been developing their own. One of these proactive individuals is Po-Shen Loh, a 38-year-old mathematician who developed a contact-tracing app as one way to tackle the coronavirus. Loh spoke to Mochi via Zoom about the NOVID — a portmanteau of �...

JS Lee and “Everyone Was Falling” Before the 2016 Election JS Lee’s novel “Everyone Was Falling” takes place in 2016, when racism, trauma and violence increased on the verge of Trump’s election. Reading the novel— which was released in September 2020 — after another election has passed feels foreboding yet affirming.  Intersectionality is at the center of the novel. Lucy is a queer, Asian adoptee who grew up as the only Asian in Bixby. She has long left life in the small town a...

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Google workers start to unionize; female keynoters take over a virtual CES; 2021 tech events for women; and more. Google employees are fed up with the tech behemoth and have started unionizing in the New Year, an article in The New York Times explains. While joining unions isnt common in the US for such white-collar jobs, hundreds of employees have banded together in outrage over Googles lack of response to numerous claims of sexual harassment and unequal pa...

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: A booming tech space in Tennessee; Pinterest employee complaints draw unequal results; something good comes of Amazons wealth; and more. When you think of tech, Middle Tennessee doesnt necessarily come to mind. Yet a local news source says the area, which includes Nashville, has become a booming hub for tech jobs. Proponents argue that the industry is thriving there, quality of life is much higher than in more notable regions and despite lower salaries, they ...

As a Contributing Writer, Copy Editor and Editorial Intern, Austin Beck-Doss shines at SLUG through his careful eye and substantive editorial intuition. As witty as it is incisive and profound, Beck-Doss’ writing oozes a humanistic edge and finds creative, accessible ways to highlight the people at the heart of his stories. This month, check out his feature on

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: The future of ethics in AI; why minorities dont want to stay in tech; pandemics effects on women at work; and more. Last week we talked about ex-Google AI researcher Timnit Gebru who was fired from the company after digging into the ethics behind advances in AI. An article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation asked an important follow-up question: What does the future of AI look like if researchers arent allowed to look into the repercussions of the technolog...

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: STEM college numbers arent adding up; Teslas first diversity report; women on the moon; and more. A new study from the Center for an Urban Future found that the public City University of New York (CUNY) nearly doubled the amount of STEM graduates in the past decade, but racial and gender disparities persisted, The City reported. Women make up 58% of the CUNY student population, and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) students make up 55% of the popu...

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Away with that. because you know jesse that kind of scrutiny that it takes to get anything on television goes through copy editor, it goes through peer view processes and goes through producers. >> world newsing to tonight anda that was atrocious. biggest fabrication which was the it shall speaking of fabrication there. exactly right scott, tammy charlie got to go. great to see you both. >> thank you. >> everything is bigger in texas, and president trump delivered in dallas. taken on his democra...

Undermanned fec. >> under personed. >> underpersoned. >> you hear that copy editor, yeah. >> i was reading for the record. but what is going on at the fec that you are now essentially smort a quorum and cant do anything. >> we have to have six member by law no more than three can have a political party. it takes four to make decisions. for the last couple of years weve been down bodies lost one a couple years ago. lost another a year and a half ago and havent been replaced. this week on monday i...