TikTok’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Broken, Just Like YouTube’s and Facebook’s
TikTok is not immune from engagement-hungry algorithms that dominate the internet as we know it.

January 31, 2019 at 02:16PM
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When Your Technologically Inept Parents Get Their Hands On An iPad
The internet was not built for baby boomers.

January 31, 2019 at 09:37AM
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The Biggest Ever Data Dump Just Hit A Colossal 2.2 Billion Accounts
Thought Collection #1 was big? Collection #2-5 just dwarfed it.

January 31, 2019 at 08:37AM
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Inside The Experiment That Could End Infertility
In the future, we may be making eggs and sperm from our skin. A lot has to happen first.

January 31, 2019 at 07:59AM
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A Neuroscientist And A Therapist Get Their Brains 3D-Printed
Now you can finally see what’s going inside someone’s head.

January 31, 2019 at 06:18AM
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Someone Made A Deepfake Of Steve Buscemi’s Face On Jennifer Lawrence And It Is A Thing Of Ugly Beauty
While deepfakes have the potential for evil, this video makes clear that they also have the potential for good.

January 30, 2019 at 03:38PM
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Taming The Demon
In a remote canyon in northern New Mexico in the mid-1990s, Benedictine monks of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert spent their mornings at a dozen Gateway computers in a room with a dirt floor, creating the internet.

January 30, 2019 at 03:10PM
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Google’s Also Peddling A Data Collector Through Apple’s Back Door
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.

January 30, 2019 at 01:17PM
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A Tourbillon Ups The Value Of A Watch Exponentially. So What Is It?
The ultra-complicated part was originally built to fight gravity. Now, it’s extremely valuable proof a watch is special.

January 30, 2019 at 11:54AM
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Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps
The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

January 30, 2019 at 10:58AM
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