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The British Museum's Digital Ghosts: A Student's Code Exposes Colonialism's Open Tab
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The British Museum's Digital Ghosts: A Student's Code Exposes Colonialism's Open Tab

A Chinese student built a website mapping 5,000 artifacts in the British Museum to their countries of origin, visualizing what repatriation would look like. It's not just data—it's a live wire in the debate over colonialism, tech activism, and who gets to control cultural memory.

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When a Talking Shogi Board Wins a Royal Audience: The Quiet Revolution in Assistive Tech
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When a Talking Shogi Board Wins a Royal Audience: The Quiet Revolution in Assistive Tech

A Japanese inventor's award-winning device for the visually impaired caught Princess Kako's eye—and it reveals a deeper story about how Japan is rethinking innovation for an aging world.