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“You get to this age, you realize that there are people who will not like what you do no matter what you do,” says Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.

Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Right?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own […]

The key to raising indistractable kids is to first determine why they’re distracted.

Is there a way for more human-centered algorithms to prevent potentially triggering interactions on social media?

The company must also appoint an independent privacy committee to its board of its directors.

Americans’ inability to agree on what is true and what is false is a problem for democracy.

The dream of space travel has been usurped by superficiality.

It turns out these little white lies serve a purpose.

Social media wunderkind Baratunde Thurston says we’re living in an age of information overabundance, but that this needn’t be a problem. Just as supermarkets offer us many more choices of […]

The FBI has been called to investigate it.

The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe – and that could be a lesson for today’s coronavirus epidemic

The rules have changed, and so have we.

Some purveyors of “wellness” sure are sounding like right-wing conspiracy theorists.

A pragmatic approach to fixing an imbalanced system.

Jonathan Rauch explains why the internet is so hostile to the truth, and what we can do to change that.

We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?

The fine Facebook just paid was huge, but many in tech say it wasn’t nearly enough to protect your data.

Not so indestructible after all.

Striking a better work-life balance comes down to the numbers.

The more we learn about genetics and the brain, the more impossibly complicated both reveal themselves to be.

Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?

Amid the panic of the COVID-19 pandemic, are we building the surveillance states of tomorrow?

With teamwork and clearly-stated goals, big transformations can take place — swiftly.

Musican. Actor. Fashion Icon. Internet Visionary?

An international study finds the vast majority of 15-year-olds can’t tell when they’re being manipulated.

When it comes to sniffing out whether a source is credible or not, even journalists can sometimes take the wrong approach.

An upcoming experiment will test how well the nation can function on its internal internet.

How much are free online goods worth to people, anyway? Researcher attempt to find an answer.

Are you a victim of the social media bubble?