Even Play-Doh fingerprints can fool your iPhone. Joseph D. Leckenby Phil Schiller, a member of Apple’s executive team, unveils the Face ID feature at the company’s 2017 keynote event. Photo. When unlocking a cell phone these days, one does not need a password: Facial recognition or a fingerprint scan suffices…

If we wish to keep up with challenges in Iran, Afghanistan, and China, our foreign funding must be re-examined. — Alma Keshavarz - Institute for Politics and Strategy - Carnegie Mellon University Alma Keshavarz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Politics and Strategy. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon…www.cmu.edu The Triple Helix is Carnegie Mellon’s nonpartisan public policy review aiming to promote the interdisciplinary nature of science, politics, and society. Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn!

Andrew Furlong — The American Jobs Plan, as the administration dubs it, seems to stand in stark contrast to the message of unity Americans are used to hearing. As President Biden nears his hundredth day in office, he is attempting to pass his second landmark piece of legislation, the American Jobs Plan. This bill, which has been described by his administration as a crucial piece of legislation aimed at fixing the crumbling roads, bridges, and waterways in our…

Dunn Zhang — The Chinese Communist Party has rapidly invested in its Marines, Navy, and Assault capabilities with frightening implications for not only its Asian neighbors but American national security. Over the last three decades, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) economy experienced explosive growth as the nation opened itself up to the…

Alexander Shepard — Could there be an environmental silver lining to all this? COVID-19 has disturbed the lives of many worldwide and has made everyday living an almost constant struggle. However, social distancing during the middle of a pandemic does come with some benefits, that is, in regards to the environment. Many events…

Sam Abodo — Let us not make the same mistakes in Colombia previous administrations have committed. In recent years, Latin America has been undervalued by American politicians and painted as dangerous, unstable, and resistant to foreign support. While there is some truth to these sentiments, countries like Colombia are essential American allies that…

Zachary Novack — “One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age … is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.” ― Nate Silver, 538 Editor In Chief In the…

Skylar Pollock — “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing…

Kevin Fang — A truly decentralized coin requires stability, not volatility. It’s the star child of cryptocurrencies. The first to break into the mainstream with its value rocketing to $57,723 (as of March 18th), Bitcoin is now a household name. From a currency used primarily for purchasing illicit goods on the now-defunct Silk Road (a black market on the dark web)…