How To Quit Your Phone And Change Your Life By … Doing Nothing
Anxiety about tech dependence — how social media is rewiring brains and worsening lives, or how tech companies are building monopolies and spying on users — is as old as the iPhone itself. A new book by artist and author Jenny Odell suggests a radically simple solution.

April 15, 2019 at 07:27AM
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Tracking Phones, Google Is A Dragnet For The Police
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.

April 15, 2019 at 07:02AM
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How An Old ‘Spyro’ Game Cleverly Detected (And Messed With) Pirate Copies
The original PlayStation had a piracy problem, and various different strategies were deployed against pesky pirates — but Insomniac Games may have come up with the most devious anti-piracy measure of them all.

April 14, 2019 at 09:01PM
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A Researcher Needed Three Hours To Identify Me From My DNA
My case highlights the threat to privacy from genetic databases.

April 14, 2019 at 09:02PM
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A Researcher Needed Three Hours To Identify Me From My DNA
A Researcher Needed Three Hours to Identify Me From My DNAMy case highlights the threat to privacy from genetic databases.

April 14, 2019 at 09:01PM
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5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex
I spent two weeks in the underbelly of Amazon’s fake review economy and emerged questioning our collective trust in the stars.

April 14, 2019 at 11:06AM
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China’s Hi-Tech War On Its Muslim Minority
Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity — but now the Chinese state is using technology to strip them of it.

April 14, 2019 at 09:55AM
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Watch The World’s Largest Plane Successfully Land
The first flight of the world’s largest aircraft is a success.

April 13, 2019 at 03:30PM
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Why Tens of Thousands Of Perfectly Good, Donated iPhones Are Shredded Every Year
iPhone Activation Lock is a pretty robust security mechanism, but a new analysis shows tens of thousands of perfectly working iPhones are scrapped because of it.

April 13, 2019 at 08:34AM
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Facebook Accidentally Put Hidden Messages In ‘tens Of Thousands’ Of Vr Controllers Like ‘big Brother Is Watching’ And ‘the Masons Were Here’
These messages were intended only for prototypes, he said — but a mistake meant they were included in regular production devices.

April 12, 2019 at 03:44PM
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