Morgan Forde

For social entrepreneur DeMar Pitman, founder of the education data platform Discriminology, necessity was the mother of invention. “Discriminology began the day when I had a really unfortunate event happen to me,” Pitman said. Before founding the…

It seems like Google is everywhere these days. Chances are it manages your inbox, your documents, your photos, video chats, personal assistant, phone or all of the above. It turns out, devices and software are only a small part of the company’s…

Social media platforms have been consistently under fire for their attempts, or lack thereof, at flagging and removing content that features racist remarks, hate speech, and violence against women, LGBTQ groups, or religious minorities (and the list…

This week, Oregon was set to vote on the Clean Energy Jobs Bill (HB2020) which would have represented a historic commitment to reducing carbon emissions across the state’s energy, transportation, and industrial sectors — introducing a state-wide…

Ten years ago, the U.K. derived almost 30% of its energy from coal alone (not counting other fossil fuels). Today, that number has shrunk to only 3% as the country is already on track to generate roughly half of its power from renewable energy…

These days, leaving earth behind and setting up camp on the moon doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. In recent years, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, and other private companies have explored new rocket prototypes in hoping of getting…

If you've ever been dying for a snow day, only to be disappointed by a dusting, or alternatively, stepped out into what was supposed to be a fabulous summer day and ended up in a downpour, you might blame your weather app. Unfortunately we don't…

World Oceans Day takes place every year on June 8. This year’s theme is Gender and the Ocean, focusing on “ways to promote gender equality in ocean-related activities such as marine scientific research, fisheries, labour at sea, migration by sea and…

Just when you thought it couldn't spread into any more areas of your life, Facebook is jumping into the cryptocurrency market this month with its own offering, through a project currently called Libra. Initially, the currency was supposed to begin…

By now we’ve all learned about the disastrous impact of plastic microbeads making their way from your face scrub and body wash and into the ocean. However, those beads are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the microscopic plastics floating…

Among all the 2020 presidential campaign white papers and Medium posts on hot-button issues like gun control, affordable housing, and the environment, it seems like there is no shortage of 2020 policy ideas. Now, universal basic income (UBI) has…

Why is Siri female? When the revolutionary voice assistant launched on iPhones in 2010, her gender was taken as a given in the face of her quick-witted, futuristic abilities. It wasn’t until 2017 that male options were provided and by then…

Pokémon GO took the world by storm in the summer of 2016 with millions of people downloading the app and exploring the world through their phones in an attempt to “Catch ‘em all.” Now, Microsoft’s highly popular online world-building game Minecraft,…

How many times does your phone ring a day, only for you to take a look at the number and see either something shockingly close to your own 10 digits or simply "unknown"? Getting tons of robocalls (often fraudulent phone calls from unassigned or…

If it seems like hordes of scooters just showed up on your sidewalk out of nowhere over the past year, you’re actually not wrong. Startups like Lime, Bird, Skip, and others have taken a “better to beg for forgiveness than wait for permission”…

If you have ever been, or have considered being, a dog owner, chances are you’ve heard that adopting from a shelter or rescue facility is way better than buying from a breeder. In actuality, though, it's not quite as clear-cut as "shelters are good"…

The rainforest has been at the heart of environmental conservation efforts for decades. As technology has grown more advanced, scientists have begun experimenting with new ways to not only understand how the rainforest functions, but to give it a…

If you’ve ever had a fear of losing your Apple AirPods (or wondered how literally everyone else isn’t losing theirs), well, you're about to be even more terrified. Recently, a pair of AirPods ventured where few have gone before when Taiwanese naval…

In late April, news broke that Facebook must pay up to $5 billion in fines, as a result of an FTC investigation into the company’s massive data privacy violations during 2017's Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, as part of its settlement…