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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, just announced that they will put part of their enormous wealth behind an effort to spread the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s successful STEM honors program to two University of California colleges.

By Catherine Rentz

Apr 9, 2019

Frontline's "The Facebook Dilemma" documents the social media giant's habit of cloaking a devil-may-care quest for profits in naive idealism.

By David Zurawik

Oct 28, 2018

bs-ed-op-0816-pitts-intolerance-20180815. Intolerance is not a dissenting opinion deserving of respect and debate, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

If you want to understand why Mark Zuckerberg is defending the rights of people to deny the Holocaust on his now sprawling Facebook platform, you have to look to his high school. Unfortunately, he's turned a truly inspiring teaching system on its head, using it to give wide berth to bullies.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week went to testify before members of the Senate and Congress. What has evolved is a situation uncommon in recent American politics: for both conservatives and liberals to agree on an issue, namely that individual privacy must be protected online.

As Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions before Congress this week about online privacy and his company’s reach, I wondered: What information does Facebook have on me? It turns out it’s a pretty easy thing to find out — and the results are both amusing and disturbing.

Facebook CEO Mark Zucerkberg's apologies and evasions didn't cut it with Congress.

By David Zurawik

Apr 11, 2018

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg needs to commit to tough, global data protection and privacy rules.

While Zuckerberg sounded like he was saying some of the right things in the CNN interview about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, his record on matters of social responsibility and stewardship of personal data contributed by members of his Facebook community is dismal.

By David Zurawik

Mar 22, 2018

Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his research on the universe’s origin and expansion.

By Sarah Gantz

Dec 3, 2017

For decades I have argued against any form of increased government regulation of media. But Facebook's dirty dance with the Russians in election 2016 proves it can't be trusted to police itself.

By David Zurawik

Oct 3, 2017

Even with hard evidence that Russians exploited American social media for nefarious purposes, Donald Trump clings to the delusion that it's fake news.

Technology is fundamentally changing the world economy but the U.S. seems ill-prepared for what's coming

A billionaire's toddler gets vaccinated and, for better or worse, the world demands its two cents

At 32 years old, Christopher C. Rogers, one of the co-creators of the AMC television drama "Halt and Catch Fire," is one of the youngest and brightest creators in the industry. The show revolves around a rogue corporate computer guru, Joe MacMillian (Lee Pace), who snowballs a Texas software company into creating the first portable PC.

Americans are fraidy-cats and cowards, says Leonard Pitts Jr., judging by the reaction to Ahmed Mohamed's digital clock.

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know, yet, if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

The Center Club, the members-only business and dining club, is opening a new sports pub in its otherwise formal space, paid for by Orioles owner Peter Angelos and part of a movement by such institutions to attract younger members.

By Jean Marbella

Jul 24, 2015

Susan Reimer on news consumption on Facebook

By Susan Reimer

Jun 5, 2015

Nobel laureate Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins win Breakthrough Prize for showing the expansion of the universe is accelerating

Take $25 million and call Doctors Without Borders in the morning to cure a case of Ebola

Inside a drab computer lab at the Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is trying to build something that has never existed before: a digital currency that changes hands completely in secret. Its name is Zerocoin.

The lives of the Baltimore teens are among the thousands influenced by George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who decided 15 years ago that the city, with severe crime and poverty and just enough potential, was ripe for an experiment unlike any other. The Open Society Institute field office in Baltimore was designed as a social justice laboratory to keep students engaged in school, confront drug addiction, reduce incarceration and grow an army of advocates.

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

America's politicians say we need more students trained in STEM disciplines. So it must be easy for graduates with those skills to get jobs, right?

Google and Facebook founders choose Hopkins researcher Bert Vogelstein for $3 million prize

Facebook one billion served

Maryland brokers and advisors say Facebook IPO sours investors on the stock market.

Stock market investing is simply another form of gambling

Facebook founders make a killing but stock owners are a different story

What would A.S. Abell and Mark Zuckerberg have to say to one another?

Facebook to allow organ donation status, an idea that came from a Hopkins doctor

Facebook enables organ donor status

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III, whose trailblazing work in educating minority students in the sciences has catapulted the university onto the national stage, has been named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine.

Mitt Romney can't try to out-cool President Obama with young voters, but he can make it clear just how hard the president is trying. Kids hate that.

Baltimore's T. Rowe Price is a significant investor in Facebook

Shoot your lunch for Picture This, Baltimore

Facebook users are heading to Twitter in droves to complain about Facebook's new look

Men from Pikesville, Owings Mills and Canton forming a local alumni club of Alpha Epsilon Pi international Jewish fraternity.