The Atlantic
30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact
20+ min read · 2020-06-18 · Here’s what’s become of them.
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The Verge
Facebook launches an app for couples to talk to each other
1 min read · From 2020 · A relationship maintenance app.
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Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
~16 min read · From 2020 · This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines.
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TechCrunch
Under quarantine, media is actually social
5 min read · From 2020 · The flood of status symbol content into Instagram Stories has run dry. No one is going out and doing anything cool right now, and if they are, they should be shamed for it. Beyond sharing video chat…
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Social Media Today
Instagram Launches New Co-Watching Feature to Help Users Connect Amid COVID-19 Lockdoans
3 min read · From 2020 · Instagram is launching a new 'Co-Watching' feature which enables users to scroll through Instagram within a video chat.
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Andrew Hutchinson, Socialbakers, Mari Smith, Mars Rebello
MIT Technology Review
We’re not going back to normal
6 min read · From 2020 · Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever.
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The Cut
Will the Millennial Aesthetic Ever End?
~18 min read · From 2020 · Investigating the undying tyranny of terrazzo.
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Guardian Tech
Infinite scroll: life under Instagram
~17 min read · From 2020 · The long read: After a few years, I came to understand Instagram dwellers as broken people – my people
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MIT Technology Review
Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse.
~11 min read · From 2019 · Instead of never-ending progress, today’s kids face a world on the edge of collapse. What next?
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CNET
6 clever Gmail tricks to minimize regret, frustration and spam
4 min read · From 2020 · Gmail can help keep your inbox -- and your reputation -- clean by giving you control over what comes into and what goes out of your Google account.
Reader View · Shared by 17, including Mars Rebello, Amber Mac, Howard Getson
NRK
Chasing climate change
~15 min read · From 2020 · In Norway, way up by the Arctic circle, global warming is already affecting people and nature. Here's how.
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The Ringer
Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry
~13 min read · From 2019 · Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business. Here’s what happens when a social media platform becomes a label.
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Quartz
Frustration grows in China as face masks compromise facial recognition
2 min read · From 2020 · Facial recognition technology is essential to daily life in China, on a scale beyond than other nations.
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WIRED
The Fractured Future of Browser Privacy
5 min read · From 2020 · Better anti-tracking measures have become the norm for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and other modern browsers. But they still disagree on how exactly they should work.
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Longreads
Menace Too Society
9 min read · From 2020 · Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house.
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The Outline
Raising a person in a culture full of types
6 min read · From 2020 · We probably shouldn’t be telling children that who they are determines what they do.
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