‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion

Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but the algorithm has made us all sheep. Meet the style rebels fighting back ...

Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Reckoning,' a follow-up to 2010's 'The Social Network.' Here's everything we know.

16 years after the release of "The Social Network," Aaron Sorkin will tell the story of how Facebook infiltrated our daily ...

Should You Hijack a Corporate AI Chatbot for Free Tokens?

A developer went viral for reconfiguring Chipotle’s customer support bot into a coding assistant, and providing the playbook ...

See Jeremy Strong Become Mark Zuckerberg in First Trailer for Aaron Sorkin's “The Social Reckoning”

'The Social Reckoning' follows the events that led to The Wall Street Journal's exposés on the company's practices in 2021 ...

‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School

Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children’s attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has ...
Opinion

Snap sent alerts to students during class hours despite knowing the risk of distraction

Internal documents from lawsuits filed by 1,400+ school districts reveal how Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube deliberately targeted students, even during school hours.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to ...

‘Autistic kids are being experimented on’: inside America’s booming market for unproven stem cell infusions

Feeling abandoned and overwhelmed, families are turning to controversial new therapies backed by the US health secretary ...
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A Migration Story: Tracking Immigration Narratives Online

Bose, a geographer by training, studies migration and environmental displacement—the forced movement of people due to fire ...

No, Not That Georgia. A.I. Compounds a Nation’s Identity Woes.

Online queries are more likely to turn up references to the U.S. state — a problem for the republic in the Caucasus and its people. But a move to drop the name “Georgia” has lost steam.

Manipulated algorithms, social media and how they exacerbate the xenophobia crisis in South Africa

As South Africa faces a rising tide of xenophobia, the absence of African ambassadors on Africa Day highlights the urgent ...

In Hindsight: Tech Quotes That Got the Future Right and Wrong

Tech leaders love predicting the future. Sometimes they nail it, sometimes they miss spectacularly, and sometimes they leave ...

AI godbots: religious leaders warn of ‘alarming consequences’ when machines speak in the name of God

Researchers interviewed almost 30 religious leaders across all six major religious faiths in the UK to find out how AI was ...