Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Internet writer Adrian Chen decided to investigate professional trolls working for the Russian government and they played him like a fiddle.
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Web 2.0 was all about sharing and networking. Web 3.0 is emphasizing securing your data from all the people with whom you shared and networked.
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The internet may have broadened our horizons, but it hasn't changed how we think about sex. With maybe one exception...
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Panic about social media ruining kids' minds is just another in a long line of panics created by older generations intimidated by new technology.
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A viral social media post claims that life on Earth is far more fragile than it actually is.
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Recruiters and employers are now snooping through candidates' social media because they can. That open them to potential liability and have far-reaching affects across social platforms.
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MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.
