How to keep your data from brokers and marketers

We’ve seen a stream of revelations about data brokers in recent months, and though the stories vary, the takeaway is consistent: Our privacy has never been more vulnerable.

In May, Vice

3 free cooking resources for people who have no time to cook

Sometimes I feel like my wife and I spend more time planning meals than actually cooking them. It’s a weekly brainstorming session wherein we somehow forget every dish we’ve ever enjoyed and have to come up with all-new dinner ideas from scratch.

Then during the week, we get busy and don’t feel like cooking because it takes too long or we’re missing a vital ingredient. It’s a vicious cycle of expensive takeout paired with unused groceries.

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Chatbots need to evolve to stay relevant in the age of virtual assistants

Our exposure to chatbots is at an all-time high. From customer service to commerce to healthcare, chatbots are the fastest growing brand communica

I spent six weeks living in A24-world. Here’s what happened

What makes A24 a cultural powerhouse is not that it released a film last spring in which an inter-dimensional assassin impales himself on an Auditor of the Month trophy, inexplicably shaped like a certain sex toy, although it most certainly did. It’s not that most cinephiles would immediately guess A24 as the company who put out that film,

Why people fell for UST and how to potentially avoid getting burned by not-so-stable stablecoins

It’s safe to say that we’re in another crypto winter as projects begin to go under and investors hold their heads. Arguably what set off this series of unfortunate events was the depegging of

I’d love to dump Gmail for this slick, private email–but there’s a catch

If Gmail were to reinvent itself with a streamlined design and stronger privacy policies, it’d probably look a lot like Skiff.

Skiff’s email service, which launched last month, offers end-to-end encryption for messages to other Skiff users and claims to have no way of reading your email contents. The app is also beautiful, with none of the forced product tie-ins that make Gmail feel bloated.

Google’s AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought

When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence systems trained on massive amounts of human text.

People are so accustomed to assuming that fluent language comes from a thinking, feeling human that evidence to the contrary

We could be using facial authentication for a whole lot more than unlocking our phones

Apple’s product release events are famous for providing the stage where innovative products and services are introduced to the world for the first time. From Steve Jobs pulling the iPod out of his pocket to the iPhone’s debut, the event’s reputation is well established as a must-see reveal.

In 2017, Apple’s flagship event was defined no

First bipartisan gun legislation in nearly 30 years to become law

The first Congressional action on gun control in nearly three decades is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk. With the support of all Democrats and 14 Republicans, the House on Friday passed the bipartisan bill 234-193, which is designed to make it more difficult for people to acquire firearms, 

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These tech companies are pledging to pay for abortion travel

A number of tech and media companies are responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by offering to pay the travel expenses of employees who will now have to travel to access reproductive health services in other states.

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