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Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?
The anti-smartphone movement is having a moment. On March 25, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning children under…
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Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
As he sat down across from me, my patient had a rueful expression on his face. “I had a date,”…
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Frances Haugen Says We Need a ‘Free Mark’ Movement
You believe those laws will come? Will we get the laws we need in the next two years? Very unlikely.…
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An Eating Disorder Chatbot Is Suspended for Giving Harmful Advice
Tessa is provided by the health tech company X2AI, now known as Cass, which was founded by entrepreneur Michiel Rauws and…
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For Some Autistic People, ChatGPT Is a Lifeline
The chatbot’s flexibility also comes with some unaddressed problems. It can produce biased, unpredictable, and often fabricated answers, and is built…
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How to Make the Most of In-Person Conferences
“I’ve lost my social skills!” I texted to a friend while en route to my first in-person conference in four…
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After-Loss Tech Wants to Ease the Logistics of Death
Even tech companies like Netflix and PayPal require manual effort and often pages of documentation if the bereaved do not…
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The Pandemic Drives Cofounders to Couples Therapy
Before they were cofounders, Kris Chaisanguanthum and Ryan Damm were friends. Then in 2016 they started Visby, a holographic imaging…
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