The scientists who are creating a bio-internet of things

The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

«Scammers used to make their $$ from naive people. Now they get their payments straight from some of the world's biggest tech companies.»

Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3

The oil kingdom fears that its population is aging at an accelerated rate and hopes to test drugs to reverse the problem. First up might be the diabetes drug metformin.

In a first, a patient in New Zealand has undergone gene-editing to lower their cholesterol. It could be the beginning of new era in disease prevention.

Companies already have the systems in place that are needed to evaluate their deeper impacts on the social fabric.

«Facebook’s 2012 “emotional contagion” experiment, which showed that users’ affect (their mood as measured by their behavior on the platform) shifted measurably depending on which version of the product they were exposed to»

In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances and belongings as I could to the internet: an Amazon Echo, my lights, my…

Internet-connected home devices that are marketed as the newest conveniences are also being used to harass, monitor and control.

In the next three to seven years, I expect most mobile apps to disappear. With them, we’ll witness the loss of billions in venture capital that we’ve poured into the start-up sector.

So everything will just work with whatever smart assistant you already have.

Will this be the one smart home standard to rule them all or just another entry?