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Auth0 Built a Business Around the Work Hidden in a Login
Developer-centered identity infrastructure makes access policy and account recovery a public-facing design issue.
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Tech.
Technology through the lens of Latino creators, culture and community. Who builds it, who benefits, and who gets heard.
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Platforms & Digital Culture
Social media, algorithms, online communities and the business of getting heard.
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The TikTok Panic & Staying Ahead of the Ever-Changing Digital Space
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Nowhere to Turn to but Social Media: Indie Media is No Better for Us than Mainstream
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Access & Power
Digital literacy, privacy, misinformation and the divides that determine who can participate.
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Nubank Moved the Bank Line. Who Can Get Through?
A Colombian founder, a Brazilian banking problem, and the difference between a bigger customer count and meaningful access.
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MercadoLibre’s New CEO Inherits More Than a Marketplace
Ariel Szarfsztejn takes charge of the systems that connect commerce, payments and daily life.
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Laboratoria Changed Course When the Entry-Level Door Narrowed
The end of its coding bootcamp exposes what training cannot solve when employers stop hiring beginners.
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Platzi’s English Bet Exposes a Job Market That Moves Its Gates
English training should widen opportunity without treating Latin American workers’ existing language as a deficit.
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Conekta Shows Who Owns the Rails Matters as Much as the Checkout
Product ownership and acquiring power shape who benefits from Mexico’s payment infrastructure.
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Satellogic Can See More of Earth. Who Gets to Use the View?
Latin American space innovation carries a real governance question as earth observation shifts toward persistent defense monitoring.
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SomosVC Counts the People Who Get to Say Yes
Investor representation matters because decision authority shapes what companies the market can recognize and fund.
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Franklin Chang-Díaz’s Rocket Has to Pass the Endurance Test
The long development of VASIMR shows the gap between a compelling propulsion principle and flight-ready hardware.
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Adriana Ocampo Followed a Circle of Sinkholes
Remote imagery, geophysical data, and field sites show how the Chicxulub case was assembled by teams over time.
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A Login Puzzle Became Luis von Ahn’s Book Scanner
reCAPTCHA converted a compulsory security task into transcription, exposing both the ingenuity and labor politics of the design.
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The Moving Dot María Teresa Ruiz Did Not Set Out to Find
KELU-1 shows discovery as a change in classification during a systematic search for other faint objects.
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A Brain-Controlled Arm Needs to Feel Something Back
Nicolelis and colleagues’ feedback experiments place sensation, training, and collaboration beside the visible act of movement.
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José Quiñonez Put a Familiar Loan on the Credit Record
Lending Circles makes visible a community lending practice that conventional credit files had ignored.
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Be Conduit of Good: Join LED’s Digital Literacy Movement
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How to Combat the Evils of Disinformation and Misinformation
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Creativity
The ideas, craft and creative ownership behind the work. A space for experimentation, expression and the people making something their own.
New writing is on the way.
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Creator Tools
Production, equipment, resources and workflows for filmmakers, podcasters, independent creators and the businesses building their own platforms.
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Tech · LUCIR
Platzi’s English Bet Exposes a Job Market That Moves Its Gates
English training should widen opportunity without treating Latin American workers’ existing language as a deficit.
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Auth0 Built a Business Around the Work Hidden in a Login
Developer-centered identity infrastructure makes access policy and account recovery a public-facing design issue.
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Finance & Investment
Who owns the work, who funds it and who shares in its value. The business of creative independence, from production financing to building a sustainable company.
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Tech · LUCIR
Nubank Moved the Bank Line. Who Can Get Through?
A Colombian founder, a Brazilian banking problem, and the difference between a bigger customer count and meaningful access.
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MercadoLibre’s New CEO Inherits More Than a Marketplace
Ariel Szarfsztejn takes charge of the systems that connect commerce, payments and daily life.
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VamosVentures’ Latino Focus Has a U.S. Border
An investment thesis becomes concrete through rules about location, sector, stage and who can apply.
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Conekta Shows Who Owns the Rails Matters as Much as the Checkout
Product ownership and acquiring power shape who benefits from Mexico’s payment infrastructure.
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SomosVC Counts the People Who Get to Say Yes
Investor representation matters because decision authority shapes what companies the market can recognize and fund.
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José Quiñonez Put a Familiar Loan on the Credit Record
Lending Circles makes visible a community lending practice that conventional credit files had ignored.
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The Future
The people and ideas shaping what comes next in media, technology and culture—and the choices our communities should help make.
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Profiles / Tech · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK
Ellen Ochoa Had More to Do Than Make History
The astronaut’s legacy lives in research, robotic arms and the judgment to stop a launch.
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Globant Wants to Sell AI Output. The Human Work Still Counts
Output-based software services still depend on human judgment. The workforce belongs in the story.
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Satellogic Can See More of Earth. Who Gets to Use the View?
Latin American space innovation carries a real governance question as earth observation shifts toward persistent defense monitoring.
Read the articleTech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK
Franklin Chang-Díaz’s Rocket Has to Pass the Endurance Test
The long development of VASIMR shows the gap between a compelling propulsion principle and flight-ready hardware.
Read the articleTech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK
Adriana Ocampo Followed a Circle of Sinkholes
Remote imagery, geophysical data, and field sites show how the Chicxulub case was assembled by teams over time.
Read the articleTech / Profiles / Books & Writers · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK
A Login Puzzle Became Luis von Ahn’s Book Scanner
reCAPTCHA converted a compulsory security task into transcription, exposing both the ingenuity and labor politics of the design.
Read the articleTech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK
The Moving Dot María Teresa Ruiz Did Not Set Out to Find
KELU-1 shows discovery as a change in classification during a systematic search for other faint objects.
Read the articleTech / Profiles · LUCIR · LOOKING BACK
A Brain-Controlled Arm Needs to Feel Something Back
Nicolelis and colleagues’ feedback experiments place sensation, training, and collaboration beside the visible act of movement.
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