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I Uncovered an Army of Fake Men on Hinge
Whaling also said that many of the company’s apps ask users to take profile photos within the app itself, so…
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One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it…
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It’s Time to Reframe the Story of Climate Inequity
In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of…
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The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier…
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How Bots Corrupted Advertising | WIRED
“As a result of this elaborate scheme, the defendant falsified billions of ad views and caused businesses to pay more…
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Amazon Wants Its Home Robot, Astro, to Anticipate Your Every Need
The same approach to teaching Astro with gestures and words could in the future be extended to all kinds of…
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Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’
That project is now personified by today’s announcement of Halo Rise, the $140 “no-contact bedside sleep tracker, smart alarm and…
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Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users…
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This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon…
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Brazil’s Far Right Plots Its Own January 6 Insurrection
People voting in Brazil’s October 2 elections have been subjected to a deluge of misinformation and disinformation on social media…
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