Bitcoin falls to fresh lows as crypto crashes on ‘Black Monday’: Here are 3 reasons why

Crypto investors are seeing red this morning as the entire cryptocurrency market appears to be heading off a cliff. At the time of this writing, major cryptocurrencies are down as much as 16% or more in the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinDesk.

Both Dogecoin and Ether are currently down 16%, Solana is down over 15%, and Shiba Inu is down over 11%. Other coins, including Tron and Ap

A social work researcher explains why apps are turning people on to therapy

It might be surprising to think about browsing for therapists and ordering up mental health care the way you can peruse a menu on Grubhub or summon a car on Lyft.

But over the last decade, digital access to therapy has become increasingly common, in some cases replacing the traditional model of in-person weekly sessions between a therapist and client.

Apps for mental health and wellness range from mood trackers, meditation tools and journals to therapy apps that match users to a

5 time-saving tools that make Microsoft Edge a great Chrome alternative

I thought it would have been a cold day in you know where before I’d switch away from Google Chrome. But I’ve been delightedly using Microsoft Edge as my main web browser for more than a year now. It’s fast like Chrome—it should be, since it leverages Chrome technology under the hood—but there are just a few bell

How the product manager who went viral on TikTok schooled a bunch of tech bro trolls

Last week, Darby Maloney posted a TikTok explaining her job as a product manager in the tech industry—and, in the process, accidentally triggered some dark, misogynistic corners of the internet. Maloney’s 92-seco

Try this hack for being present even when you need to check your phone

A cloaking device is a technology that makes your spaceship invisible to others. It’s a must-have for any modern sci-fi hero. But not even the Klingons or the Romulans had a two-way cloaking device. Many of us do—it’s our phone. When we feel that little “ZZZT!!” of a notification and pick it up, our sentient self becomes instantly invisible. Fascinatingly, the effect is two-way. The human world disappears to us at these moments. We can’t see anyone. W

At WWDC, Apple finally turned all its devices into one big platform

Once upon a time, Apple’s business was centered around the Mac, and nobody expected the company to update its operating-system software more frequently than once every other year or so.

For example, the Mac’s OS X Tiger update arrived in April 2005–and its successor, OS X Leopard, didn’t show up until October 2007. (It

This psychiatrist decodes what your text messages mean. Here’s what you’re missing

Mimi Winsberg is a Stanford-trained psychiatrist, and the co-founder and chief medical officer of Brightside, a national telemental health company. She previously served as the onsite psychiatrist at Facebook. She specializes in the field of digital health, devising algorithms to recognize mental illness though data.

Below, Winsberg shares five key insights from her new book, Speaking in Thumbs: A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don’t Have To

How to write a letter of recommendation—for yourself

Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed these letters were blinded evaluations. But after deconstructing our initial unease with the secret handshake, wink-wink agreement, we found the rationale: Writing a good letter of rec

Omicron BA.4 and BA.5: CDC tracker and map shows where the latest variants are spreading

Though the COVID-19 pandemic may seem like a thing of the past to some, the world is still actually gripped by it. Recent waves of newer omicron sub-variants have swept through South Africa and

We are fully dependent on the internet—and that’s changing our brains (and everything else)

Justin E. H. Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris. His books include Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of ReasonThe Philosopher: A History in Six Types; and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life.

Below, Smith shares five key insights from his new book, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning


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