This Pixel Tracking Demo Shows How Easy It Is To Make A Creepy Surveillance Tool
Supertracker is designed to prove a point about email tracking’s pervasiveness.

July 19, 2019 at 02:23PM
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Two Single Strangers Design Each Others Avatars, Meet For A Blind Date In Virtual Reality
Designing your ideal physical mate is a dangerous and potentially mean game to play when you don’t know what the other person looks. And while this is an objectively cool date regardless of who you are with, we couldn’t imagine two people more different than each other.

July 19, 2019 at 09:28AM
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Someone Hacked My T-Mobile Account And T-Mobile Won’t Talk About It
Cell phone carriers still have a long way to go before making your accounts truly secure.

July 18, 2019 at 03:26PM
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Who Owns The Rights To Mexico’s ‘Wonder’ Plant?
A nitrogen-fixing maize grown in an indigenous region of Mexico has the ability to fertilize itself, recent research shows. Now, as a global company and US scientists work to replicate this trait in other corn varieties, will the villages where the maize originated share fairly in the profits?

July 18, 2019 at 02:58PM
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Grindr Had Dreams Of Making The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It
Over the last 18 months, Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement and internal turmoil. Now the popular gay dating and hookup app is looking for a new owner.

July 18, 2019 at 02:17PM
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FaceApp Isn’t Creepy Because It’s Russian, It’s Creepy Because It’s Capitalist
FaceApp’s privacy policy is bad. Its policy isn’t uniquely bad because it’s a Russian company.

July 17, 2019 at 08:19PM
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Why I’m Turning My Son Into A Cyborg
When my son was diagnosed as autistic, I reacted not just as a mom. I reacted as a mad scientist and built him a superpower.

July 17, 2019 at 05:57PM
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What I Learned From Failing To Install A 25-Year-Old Webcam
Why USB ports changed the world for the better, or what I learned from a futile month of trying to get a 25-year-old webcam working on a modern PC.

July 17, 2019 at 10:52AM
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Elon Musk Wants To Hook Your Brain Directly Up To Computers — Starting Next Year
The Tesla and SpaceX founder announced a goal of implanting chips into human brains as early as next year to create direct human connections to computers.

July 17, 2019 at 08:32AM
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Screen Time, Sacred Time
Demonizing immersive technology limits our conception of what it’s for.

July 17, 2019 at 07:01AM
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