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how social media is radicalizing wellness gurus and your parents

Once associated with lefty politics, hipsters, and hippies, wellness influencers and their audiences are taking a sudden right wing turn, and social media may be to blame.
how social media is radicalizing wellness gurus and your parents

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how artificial intelligence can help fix economies

Current economic models and priorities set almost a century ago are obviously failing us today. Can machines help us get back on the right track?
how artificial intelligence can help fix economies

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the automated workhouse: how machines quietly conquered the world

Science fiction imagines humans subservient to rows of servers humming in a data centers after losing a world war. In reality, the machines didn't have to fire a single shot…
the automated workhouse: how machines quietly conquered the world

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hackers aren't getting better, so why do we keep getting hacked?

We're told that digital security is a cat and mouse game between computer geniuses, but the reality is a lot less impressive and sadder than we're led to believe.
hackers aren't getting better, so why do we keep getting hacked?

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today's social media is literally killing us

Rather than connecting the world and fostering meaningful dialogue, social media is encouraging conspiracies, scams, dangerous hoaxes, and even genocide.
today's social media is literally killing us

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why social media is a cesspool, and how regulation could make it worse

Social media is changing the world for the worse, which has some people wondering if it's time to start regulating it. But regulation could be a much worse cure than the disease.
why social media is a cesspool, and how regulation could make it worse

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why computers of the future may have to sleep

Turns out artificial intelligence needs a nap every once in a while to stay accurate, and that may tell us something fundamental about our own minds.
why computers of the future may have to sleep

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china is creating the blueprint for totalitarian techno-idiocracy

China is aiming for AI supremacy to automate and export totalitarianism. This effort is bound to backfire, but not for the reason you may think.
china is creating the blueprint for totalitarian techno-idiocracy

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why the first thing you should do with the tiktok app is uninstall it

While most apps you use today collect a lot of data, TikTok goes far beyond normal logging and location services, and straight into the realm of spyware.
why the first thing you should do with the tiktok app is uninstall it

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why the earn it act is a backdoor for a digital police state

With the EARN IT bill, politicians are unwittingly and stubbornly putting us at greater risk from criminals and terrorists while insisting they're just trying to protect us.
why the earn it act is a backdoor for a digital police state

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why tech bros criticizing covid models don't know what they're talking about

Pay no attention to the tech personalities double guessing COVID-19 models. They're not the experts they think they are, or pretend to be.
why tech bros criticizing covid models don't know what they're talking about

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the world after covid-19: less outsourcing, more onshoring and automation?

As the virus pushes our finely fined, just-in-time supply chains to the breaking point with frustrating ease, it's worth asking if we should rethink how we make and service things.
the world after covid-19: less outsourcing, more onshoring and automation?

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why tech billionaires can't "disruptively" vote their way to digital immortality

What happens when voters make decisions based on the belief that someday soon, scientists and engineers will turn them into immortal robots or web-enabled software?
why tech billionaires can't "disruptively" vote their way to digital immortality

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is the future of social media decentralized and peer to peer?

Coders and those fed up with major social media platforms are trying to create peer to peer alternatives to Twitter and Facebook. But can they really succeed in swaying users?
is the future of social media decentralized and peer to peer?

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is minimalism the antidote to runaway industrialization?

Our factories crank out tsunamis of cheap consumer goods and online shopping is getting them around the world faster. But are we hitting a point of diminishing returns?
is minimalism the antidote to runaway industrialization?

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