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Comment: NO--lacks secondary sourcing establishing notability. That a story gets picked up is one thing, but what you can't do is list the publications that picked up the story--we're not a file folder for newspaper clippings. As long as the publications in question don't discuss this one, they do not help. Drmies (talk) 01:27, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
| Type | Biweekly student freeform publication |
|---|---|
| Format | Hybrid (electronic/print) |
| Editor | Owen Gallagher Evan Girardin Daniel Matlin Awab Qureshi Naman Sood Isabela Souza |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | MC3030 University of Waterloo 200 University Ave W Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 |
| Website | mathnews.uwaterloo.ca |
Mathnews, stylized as mathNEWS is the freeform student publication of the undergraduate mathematics students of the University of Waterloo as represented by MathSoc (the Mathematics Society of the University of Waterloo).[1] Labeling itself as "Waterloo's Bastion of Erudite Thought", mathNEWS is published biweekly, with occasional deviations and special editions. The paper is varied in its content, with think pieces, local updates, and exercises in creative writing, usually through a humorous lens.[2] Though it has a cult following, the paper gained worldwide attention in February 2024 after publishing an article exposing the usage of facial recognition in on-campus vending machines.[3]
History[edit]
Founding[edit]
mathNEWS has been in publication since January 25, 1973, when it was published on a weekly basis, and was technically a club under MathSoc. On February 14th, 1975, it switched to a biweekly publication schedule, which it maintains as of April 1st, 2024.[4]
Vending Machine Article[edit]
On February 16, 2024, mathNEWS published an article titled "THE M&M’S MACHINES ARE WATCHING YOU"[5], written by regular contributor River Stanley under the pseudonym molasses. The article discussed a Reddit post by user u/SquidKid47[6], who had discovered a system malfunction for an app titled "Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe" on the on-campus Invenda vending machines selling Mars Inc products. The article was picked up by multiple well known publications, such as Business Insider[7], CBC[3], The Guardian[8], The Verge[9], and WIRED[10].
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ mathNEWS. "legal stuff". mathNEWS. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ "mathNEWS | Waterloo's Bastion of Erudite Thought". 15 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ a b Duhatscheck, Paula (27 February 2024). "Vending machines had eyes all over this Ontario campus — until the students wised up". Canadian Broadcasting Company. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Big Mak (1 March 2013). "A Brief History of mathNEWS" (PDF). No. 40th Anniversary Special Issue Spectacular. mathNEWS. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Stanley, River "molasses" (16 February 2024). "THE M&M'S MACHINES ARE WATCHING YOU" (PDF). Vol. 154, no. 3. mathNEWS. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ SquidKid47 (11 February 2024). "hey so why do the stupid m&m machines have facial recognition?". r/uwaterloo. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Edmonds, Lauren (25 February 2024). "A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial-recognition technology". Business Insider. Business Insider. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Cecco, Leyland (23 February 2024). "Canadian university vending machine error reveals use of facial recognition". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Davis, Wes (24 February 2024). ""Why do the stupid M&M machines have facial recognition?"". The Verge. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Belanger, Ashley. "A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech". Wired. Ars Technica.
External links[edit]
- mathNEWS Archived 2020-06-25 at the Wayback Machine
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