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  1. scams
    Happy Valentine’s Day: Romance Scams Cost People $143 Million Last YearAh, love.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  2. data privacy
    Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Saved All Your AnswersNetflix won’t say for how long or where it is storing your data.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  3. life in pixels
    With Social Media Disinformation, What — and Who — Should We Be Afraid Of?We may have more to fear from wealthy donors than from geopolitical adversaries like Russia.
    By Max Read
  4. select all
    You Can Now Pick Up Your Amazon Order at CoachellaThe online giant is getting into the music festival business.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  5. facebook
    ‘Mark Is an Authoritarian’: An Early Facebook Investor on the Company’s SinsTalking with venture capitalist and newfound Silicon Valley doomsayer Roger McNamee.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. select all
    Did You Spend More Than the Average American on Apps Last Year?If it was under $80, you’re below average.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  8. amazon
    Amazon and Google Now Control the Top Two Wi-Fi Mesh RoutersWith Amazon acquiring Eero, the mesh networking market is now controlled by two very, very large companies with an appetite for personal data.
    By Jake Swearingen
  9. q&a
    How Four Ex-Amazoners Made a Crazy-Good Wireless Cam for $20One of the co-founders of Wyze Labs tells us how they made a camera that performs just as well as products ten times the price.
    By Jake Swearingen
  10. memes
    A Brief History of Saying ‘Gay Rights!’ OnlineA viral clip from stars of The Favourite has a tangled past.
    By Brian Feldman
  11. nut button
    Finally, a Device for Telling Your Partner You Want to Bang Without SpeakingLoveSync is the nut button meme come to life.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  12. youtube
    Don’t Congratulate YouTube for Trying to Tame the Conspiracy Monster It CreatedThe company announced it is no longer recommending conspiracy videos. That’s long overdue.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  13. amazon
    Amazon Shoppers Would Buy Amazon-Brand Computers, Health Care, and WeedNot only are people increasingly happy to buy everything through Amazon, they’d be okay with Amazon making everything, as well.
    By Jake Swearingen
  14. extortion
    Jeff Bezos Thwarts the National Enquirer’s Nude Picture Extortion AttemptThe Amazon CEO published correspondence between his camp and a tabloid digging up dirt on his affair.
    By Brian Feldman
  15. e-commerce
    Can Amazon Compete in India When It Can’t Act Like a Monopoly?New policies in India will make it much harder for foreign behemoths like Amazon and Walmart to throw their weight around.
    By Jake Swearingen and Stephan Kozub
  16. google
    Can Google Be More Than an Advertising Company?The company continues to make hundreds of billions each year, but nearly all of that is from advertising revenue — and that’s a problem.
    By Jake Swearingen
  17. technology
    Rage Drove the Google Walkout. Can It Bring About Real Change at Tech Companies?The tools of technology can stop a workers’ revolution as surely as they can help start one.
    By Alex Morris
  18. huawei
    The FBI Ran a Sting on Huawei While a Bloomberg Reporter WatchedAfter Huawei asked a start-up for a sample of its diamond-coated glass for smartphones, things quickly got very complicated.
    By Jake Swearingen
  19. dot com bowl
    Revisiting the Ads From 2000’s ‘Dot-Com Super Bowl’The average price for a 30-second website ad at the 2000 Super Bowl was $2.2 million. It wasn’t enough to save most of these early internet companies.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  20. error 2020
    Oh No, the 2020 Candidates Have Discovered How to Make Funny 404 PagesHow many months until the primaries?
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  21. beware companies bearing gifts
    Foxconn Is Good at Grifting Governments, and the U.S. Is an Easy MarkFoxconn’s disappearing factory in Wisconsin isn’t a new trick, but the U.S. is so thirsty for manufacturing jobs we’ll keep falling for it.
    By Jake Swearingen
  22. the tweet beat
    New York Attorney General Settles With Fake-Follower PeddlersDevumi, an artificial-engagement company, will no longer be able to sell fake likes and followers.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  23. polar vortex
    Just How Cold Is It? Let the Tweets Show You.Frozen toilet bowls. Frozen pants. Frozen boiling water.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  24. technology
    Apple Sued After FaceTime Bug Reportedly Let Someone Eavesdrop on TestimonyAn attorney in Texas is coming for Apple in a suit filed this week.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  25. oops
    Apple Disables Facebook Apps Following News of Shady Research ProjectFacebook used its privileged iOS access to distribute a “research” app that could collect tons of sensitive data from consumers’ phones.
    By Brian Feldman
  26. smartphone decline
    Apple and Investors Try to Figure Out Life After the iPhone BoomWhat does Apple look like when it’s selling fewer iPhones every year rather than more?
    By Jake Swearingen
  27. buzzfeed
    Remaining BuzzFeed Staff Still Very Unclear on What’s Going OnIn an internal Slack, CEO Jonah Peretti is “getting slammed in multiple languages,” a source said.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  28. friendly fraud
    Senators Look Into Facebook’s Predatory Game DesignChildren were inadvertently spending hundreds or thousands of dollars and Facebook saw no issue with it.
    By Brian Feldman
  29. just asking questions
    BuzzFeed Paid the Teen Making Its Top Quizzes in Free SwagRachel McMahon is a 19-year-old college student in Michigan who learned this week that she was BuzzFeed’s second-highest traffic driver in the world.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  30. buzzfeed
    BuzzFeed’s Experimental Era Is OverThe site prided itself on taking risks and shifted media as a result. But it still hasn’t turned a profit.
    By Brian Feldman
  31. the future is foldable
    How Much Would You Pay for a Foldable Smartphone?Phone manufacturers hope the answer is a lot.
    By Jake Swearingen
  32. iphone
    Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Eavesdrop on Any iPhone UserA critical bug in iOS 12.1 means you probably want to disable FaceTime, like, right now.
    By Jake Swearingen
  33. post reality
    The Last Glassholes Are Still on RedditBut please, please, don’t call them Glassholes.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  34. memes
    See the Meme That’s the Culmination of 5,000 Years of Human CivilizationThe ad one can never escape .
    By Brian Feldman
  35. post reality
    AR Gaming Is a Work in Progress — But There Are Still Some Good GamesThe best of the best.
    By Brian Feldman
  36. streaming wars
    Netflix: We’re Upping Prices. Hulu: We’re Cheaper Now!Hulu’s ad-free package price will remain the same, though.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  37. post reality
    The Past and Future of the Head-up Display, the Original Augmented RealityHow the head-up display moved from fighter jets to minivans.
    By Joel Johnson
  38. post reality
    Want to Try Augmented Reality? This Is the Hardware You’ll NeedWhile phones are perfectly suitable AR devices, if you want to make 3-D models or battle zombies the right way, you’ll need dedicated hardware.
    By Steven John
  39. government shutdown
    Uber CEO Says Furloughed Workers Are Driving to Make Money During ShutdownA study in 2018 found over half of Uber drivers make significantly less than minimum wage.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  40. post reality
    A History of Snapchat’s Dancing Hot Dog, AR’s Breakthrough MomentTalking to Snap about the lens that captivated the world.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  41. select all
    I Went to Influencer Caroline Calloway’s $165 Seminar So You Don’t Have ToThe uncanceled workshop offered five and a half hours of personal stories, journaling lessons, and Fyre Festival jokes.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  42. augmented reality
    10 Cool Augmented-Reality Apps That You Might Actually UseGoogle Play and the App Store are awash with augmented-reality apps, and many of them are terrible. Here are ten that actually show AR’s potential.
    By Steven John
  43. post reality
    The Best Use of Augmented Reality Right Now Is the Weather Channel’sIf you want proof of augmented reality’s potential, look to this news anchor surrounded by six feet of water.
    By Brian Feldman
  44. post reality
    Virtual Reality Lets You Escape the World. Augmented Reality Improves It.Five years ago, virtual reality was the future, and augmented reality was a joke. What happened?
    By Jake Swearingen
  45. technology
    Elon Musk Slashes Workforce, Says Road Ahead for Tesla Looks ‘Very Difficult’Musk announced he’s cutting seven percent of the company’s staff.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  46. slacking off
    Don’t Like Slack’s New Logo? You’ll Reconsider When You See the Other OptionsYou can thank the designer behind Hillary Clinton’s “H” for this development.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  47. memes
    Some of You Haven’t Heard of This Meme and It ShowsAn easy, but good meme.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  48. pranks
    YouTube Bans Dangerous Pranks Like the ‘Bird Box Challenge’YouTubers are no longer allowed to risk or make anyone fear for their lives.
    By Brian Feldman
  49. select all
    Instagram Influencer Un-Cancels Infamous Creativity TourCaroline Calloway is back, baby.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  50. privacy
    Most Americans Don’t Know How Much Facebook Knows About ThemPer a new survey, odds are you haven’t seen the detailed psychographic profile Facebook has on you — and you’d be uncomfortable once you did.
    By Jake Swearingen
  51. apple
    Did People Replacing Their Batteries Lead to Weak iPhone Sales?A lot of people took advantage of Apple’s one-time offer to replace their iPhone battery for $29. Is it enough to explain why iPhone sales are down?
    By Jake Swearingen
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