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Playlist privacy: You can be identified from just three songs
Companies can identify you from your music preferences, as well as influence and profit from your behavior.
Dogs digest human food better and poop less
A new study finds that dogs fed fresh human-grade food don't need to eat—or do their business—as much.
Are you wearing deodorant while sheltering at home?
Humans are woefully unaware of their olfactory sense. That's the reality we've been sold.
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Public health crisis: Facebook ads misinform about HIV prevention drug
Facebook's misinformation isn't just a threat to democracy. It's endangering lives.
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Apple co-founder says we should ditch Facebook — permanently
Steve Wozniak doesn't know if his phone is listening, but he's minimizing risks.
The race to predict our behavior: Tristan Harris testifies before Congress
The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.
Data spies: The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
This is how data harvesting really works. You're not going to like it.
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Who is getting rich off you? The insidious big data economy.
Where is your data now? Follow the money.
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Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages
An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.
Heart-wrenching letter confronts tech companies’ accidental cruelty
"Didn't you see me Googling 'baby not moving?'" Gillian Brockell wrote a heartbreaking open letter to big tech companies imploring them to change the ways they target ads to users.
How the marketplace of ideas went rogue
Opinion ruined journalism and Facebook killed truth—but there's a way to make it right.
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Watch: The first AI-scripted commercial is here, and it’s surprisingly good
A new AI-produced commercial from Lexus shows how AI might be particularly suited for the advertising industry.
Preserving truth: How to confront and correct fake news
Journalism got a big wake up call in 2016. Can we be optimistic about the future of media?
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How much does “free” really cost?
In Life After Google, George Gilder writes that we're paying a heavy cost for "free."
New ‘animative’ backpack can play games, signal cyclist turns
A California-based company called PIX will soon release a backpack that can display animations and play games, offering a glimpse into the potential future of wearable technology. PIX, which started […]
A single “Like” on Facebook can reveal a crucial aspect of your personality
The internet and social media have made persuasive appeals more powerful than ever before.
Why a popular dating website can’t call itself ‘scientifically proven’ anymore
How useful are the algorithms dating sites use? According to one regulatory agency, not very.
Fantasy-Industrial Complex: How America Got Lost Inside a Dream
Why does America confuse fantasy for reality, in pop culture and in politics? Kurt Andersen can pinpoint the moment it happened.
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The Eyeball Economy: How Advertising Co-Opts Independent Thought
In what Tristan Harris calls a "race to the bottom of the brain stem," media companies and advertisers will do almost anything to keep your eyes locked where they want them.
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Virtual Reality Will Trick You In Ways You’ll Like – and Ways You Won’t
When you take off a virtual reality headset, you don't remember seeing things, you recall experiencing them, says Kevin Kelly. VR will create a world of amazing opportunity – for us and for advertisers.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is the World’s Most Powerful Editor-in-Chief
Facebook can flip your digital identity on and off at the switch; that is way too much power for any corporation to have, says Oliver Luckett — and we handed it to them.
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Why Can’t We Resist Clickbait? The Reason Will SHOCK You!
Columbia professor Tim Wu came to the Big Think studio to talk about clickbait. What happened next will shock you.
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4 Ways the Food Industry Is Warping Our Psyches
Sean Curry takes aim at the rapidly evolving "gourmet" food industry that is warping our expectations, mindsets and first-world privilege to a scary new level.
Is Your Life Really Yours? How ‘The Attention Merchants’ Got Inside Our Heads
“My Experience is What I Agree to Pay Attention to,” said psychologist William James. And therein lies the problem and danger of advertising: we don’t always agree or choose to pay attention, but it shapes our life experience irrevocably.
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Netflix is saving kids’ brains, one non-commercial break at a time
Want five or six extra days every year? Easy – choose streaming over network TV. Adults are sacrificing 130 hours, and kids 150 hours, to ads annually when they watch commercial programming.