Images from Betty Quinn's video supplement to her application to Tufts University. Five years ago, Tufts University was among the first higher-education institutions to accept short-form videos, ...

In 2013, the Internet reached new depths of shallow manipulation. Between the oppressively stupid and obnoxiously hyperbolic viral content from the Buzzfeed set, the soul-killing validation cycles of ...

The author was Clifford Stoll, a 44-year-old scientist who said that he had been online two decades. “I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two,” he wrote. “But today, I’m uneasy about ...

It’s as uncommon as a plane crash, but large-scale cyber attacks can be every bit as expensive for an insurance company. A William & Mary senior won an award for his essay that investigated the ...

Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker. A few months ago, Natasha Chenier submitted a piece to Jezebel about her sexual relationship with her dad. She described meeting her biological father for the ...

University essays ordered online are often poor quality, a joint investigation by the BBC and a university professor suggests. A growing number of companies are offering students the chance to buy ...