Jack Lynch is the Techonomy Editorial Assistant for the Summer of 2016. During the rest of the year he is a student at Georgetown University and a reporter for The Hoya.
Jack Lynch
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India Tackles Corruption with Currency Chaos
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi interrupted most evening news in his country last Tuesday to announce that in just three hours, the Indian government would bar the use of 85% of its existing currency. This...
The House Science and Tech Committee Disregards Both
The U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee is a joke, but not a funny one. It spends much time on witch hunts against climate scientists, because climate change denial is its chairman's passion. The ranking...
Cloud Software Fights Zika in Florida, Zip Code by Zip Code
As the Zika virus begins a worrisome spread in Florida, cloud-based healthcare services company athenahealth is using big data to seek out those in danger and then reach out. Working with local healthcare providers and...
Employees Losing Faith With Companies That Don’t Get Digital
The digital future has taken the corporate world by storm, but many employees are jumping ship. A new study by MIT Sloan Management Review, in collaboration with Deloitte, finds that fully half of employees who...
A Zimbabwean Pastor Built an Anti-Corruption Movement with Facebook
With his country falling apart around him, straining under the weight of corruption and oppression, Evan Mawarire took to Facebook Live to vent his frustration. What has emerged is a nationwide movement of Zimbabweans, united...
Billion Dollar Shave Club
A company that first gained fame with its goofy YouTube ads has now been bought for close to $1 billion, as a European consumer good giant tries to catch up with Amazon and other titans...
Building a Universe in a Video Game
A tiny video game studio in England has reinvented the cosmos. The game No Man's Sky, set to be released this summer, uses procedural generation to create an entire explorable universe. Complete with 18 quintillion...
UPDATE: What You Should Know about Mike Pence and Tech
After weeks of conjecture, we finally know who Trump's running mate will be as he enters the final months of the presidential race: Governor Mike Pence of Indiana. His tax cuts have helped turn Indiana...
A Quick Tech Guide to Trump’s Potential VP Picks
As we wait for the final announcement on who will accompany Donald Trump during his boisterous run for the White House, we take a look at the top three contenders and what their history is...
China’s Empty Incubators are a Sign of Development Run Amok
For years, the Chinese state has managed to strong arm the country’s economy through global crises by making huge investments into sectors like real estate and infrastructure. That top-down capital strategy is hitting a wall...
Giant Texas School System Makes a Giant Internet Commitment
The Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, with 114,000 students, is decidedly Texas-sized. But the district's latest project lives up to that grand scale: updating its entire digital network to bring 100G broadband internet access to every...
Consumers to Health Insurers: Keep it Simple
The American healthcare markethas undergone a period of rapid change in recent years. Chief among these changes has been a general shift towards consumer choice, prompting the rollout of new tech products in a bid...
Parking ticket? There’s a Bot for That
A legal chatbot called DoNotPay helps users appeal parking tickets through a series of simple questions: Was the signage confusing? Were signs clearly visible? Was the parking bay large enough? It has already helped overturn...
Nobel Laureates Tell Greenpeace to Ditch the GMO Conspiracies
On the list of misunderstood technology, genetically modified organisms might take the top spot. Now, more than 100 Nobel laureates have written an open letter asking the environmental group Greenpeace to reverse their stance on...
Obama’s Big Start-up Seminar
President Obama wants to encourage young entrepreneurs, and if he has to go out and lecture them himself, he’s willing to do it. Over the course of the two-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit last week, the...
As Race Heats Up, Clinton Talks Tech
Having fought off an ambitious Bernie Sanders and now preparing to enter a brutal fight with a fiery and unpredictable Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is taking a bit of a detour this week into the...
The Internet in China is Censored, Controlled, and Flourishing
Behind an ever-expanding protectionist wall – The Chinese state calls it the Golden Shield – nearly 700 million regularly use the internet to send chats, buy merchandise, order car services and more, sometimes on platforms...
Can Renewable Energy be Too Much of a Good Thing?
For years, Germany has been on the fast track for adopting renewable energy technology. Today, Germany leads the world in solar energy and has massively reduced its cabrbon emissions. Now, it faces an unlikely problem:...
A Robot the Price of a Smartphone Could Bring Humanoids into the Household
The big dream of consumer robotics has always been the in-home robot. In movies and television, friendly robots help with daily chores, talk and interact with their owners, and generally become a part of the...
Trucking Could be the First Destination for the Self-driving Revolution
Self-driving cars tend to spur the selfish parts of our imagination. When we read the latest article about Google’s or Tesla’s self-driving experiments, we picture quiet naps on the commute home from work as the...