Why Facebook Wants You to Be Happy
People see Facebook as a neutral platform, which they can use to …
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Can Equations Predict Happiness?
Want to be happy? There’s an equation for that, according to British …
Google Tries to Conquer the Typography of a Non-English Internet
The Internet is no longer in English, even if the coding on …
Selfies for Uncle Sam
If you use social media or have a smartphone, chances are you’ve encountered …
Derek Khanna Talks Cellphone Unlocking Victory, Copyright
After a popular online campaign to legalize cellphone unlocking, which allows a consumer …
Why Facebook Matters
I wanted to get off Facebook—to deactivate my account entirely. It seemed like …
The Beauty of Getting Lost
Rediscovering the mystery of travel in a GPS world
Aggregated Soul, Quantified Self
Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer …
Why Facebook’s Experiment Threatens Further Manipulation
Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days …
The Joke Is on Yo—and All Its Users
Breathy think pieces have lauded the latest viral app Yo as “merging …
Tech Can’t Escape Geography After All
Are conservatives doomed to forever miss out on the booming innovations of …
The Limits of Science in Matters of Justice
Chris Mooney of Mother Jones recently reviewed Harry Collins’s book, Are We All Scientific …
Should We Get Rid of Cash?
The ability to buy things online has replaced cash, almost entirely, for …
Our Collective Hatred of Ignorance
There has never been a time in human history when knowledge was …
The Tyranny of Connectivity
The search for online perfection traps us in a Fear of Missing Out.
Amazon’s War Is First in a Series
In an effort to get publisher Hachette to agree to give Amazon …
The Rights and Responsibilities of Search Engine Users
While truth has usually been a defense to charges of libel, Google …
Can Equations Predict Happiness?
Want to be happy? There’s an equation for that, according to British …
Google Tries to Conquer the Typography of a Non-English Internet
The Internet is no longer in English, even if the coding on …
Selfies for Uncle Sam
If you use social media or have a smartphone, chances are you’ve encountered …
Derek Khanna Talks Cellphone Unlocking Victory, Copyright
After a popular online campaign to legalize cellphone unlocking, which allows a consumer …
Why Facebook Matters
I wanted to get off Facebook—to deactivate my account entirely. It seemed like …
The Beauty of Getting Lost
Rediscovering the mystery of travel in a GPS world
Aggregated Soul, Quantified Self
Know thyself! According to the Quantified Self movement, data aggregation is the answer …
Why Facebook’s Experiment Threatens Further Manipulation
Facebook has taken a lot of heat in the past few days …
The Joke Is on Yo—and All Its Users
Breathy think pieces have lauded the latest viral app Yo as “merging …
Tech Can’t Escape Geography After All
Are conservatives doomed to forever miss out on the booming innovations of …
The Limits of Science in Matters of Justice
Chris Mooney of Mother Jones recently reviewed Harry Collins’s book, Are We All Scientific …
Should We Get Rid of Cash?
The ability to buy things online has replaced cash, almost entirely, for …
Our Collective Hatred of Ignorance
There has never been a time in human history when knowledge was …
The Tyranny of Connectivity
The search for online perfection traps us in a Fear of Missing Out.
Amazon’s War Is First in a Series
In an effort to get publisher Hachette to agree to give Amazon …
The Rights and Responsibilities of Search Engine Users
While truth has usually been a defense to charges of libel, Google …