
Straying From The Flock: The Potential Of Black-Bagging Surveillance Cameras
Flock Safety has a $7.5 billion valuation, a massive drone lab, and a brand-new Boston office. It can also be defeated by a fifty-cent piece

Flock Safety has a $7.5 billion valuation, a massive drone lab, and a brand-new Boston office. It can also be defeated by a fifty-cent piece

In a COVID winter, it’s harder than ever to find a public bathroom in Boston. What’s the city doing about it?

Mayor Curtatone says “We’re taking it seriously and doing our due diligence”

For some with personal connections to past mistakes, the consequences of unfettered ingenuity are no more easily ignored than mushroom clouds on the horizon


As coronavirus cases surge, community members grapple with a housing crisis.
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Another season, another bunch of BINJ reporting interns. I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our incoming summer cohort (size TBA as we’re still interviewing candidates)—already clearly another talented crew from a wildly diverse array of backgrounds, as has been typical of every group of interns since we started