Facebooks Algorithm Hijacked This $8 Billion Company to Sell Cat Blindfolds
Just as Facebook’s algorithm rewarded shocking, useless news in the past year, it’s doing the same to Wish, an app now known for selling what its CEO calls “plastic tongue things.”

December 6, 2017 at 05:24PM
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Snapchat boss Evan Spiegel on the app that made him one of the world’s youngest billionaires
With Facebook snapping at his heels, the Snap Inc founder needs to offer something more than selfies with a dog’s ears. He explains why his relaunched app could have the answer to fake news and filter bubbles.

December 6, 2017 at 03:16PM
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Researchers Combat Gender and Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Companies use AI to predict everything from the credit worthiness to preferred cancer treatment. The technology has blind spots that particularly effect women and minorities.

December 6, 2017 at 09:49AM
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Qualcomm Is Building Awesome Windows PCs Out Of Smartphone Parts
The company announced the results of a years-long project with Microsoft to create PCs that look like Windows computers, but work more like high-end phones. They boot near-instantly, they have LTE connections, they last up to 20 hours — and they run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor.

December 6, 2017 at 08:48AM
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Mental Health Apps Made Me Feel More Overwhelmed Than Ever
Products meant to make me feel better just stressed me out more.

December 6, 2017 at 07:45AM
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Google and Amazon are punishing their own customers in a bitter feud
It shouldn’t have come to this.

December 6, 2017 at 07:45AM
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Life Without The iPhone Is Pretty Damn Great
I’ve been on iOS for almost a decade now. Even if Android “Oreo” is supposedly decent, even if Google “gets” design these days, I was sure — just as I know a lot of iPhone users are — that the change would be too much to stomach. Instead I haven’t looked back

December 6, 2017 at 06:36AM
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The Return of the Techno-Moral Panic
What was once a question of if we’re doing enough has morphed into one of if we can do anything at all.

December 5, 2017 at 04:18PM
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How Two Guys and an Internet Forum Built a Kickass Computer
Eve’s product development doubled as a wild experiment in crowd-sourcing, in which Konstantinos Karatsevidis and his team let users design their ideal gadget and entrust Eve to build it.

December 5, 2017 at 12:48PM
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This Nano X-Ray Technology Is Positively Mind-Blowing
The biomedical physics department at the Technical University of Munich has developed a nanocomputer tomography device that can create three-dimensional x-ray images at resolutions up to 100 nanometers.

December 5, 2017 at 12:46PM
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