The Best Articles in Digital Life

Confused by the buzzy social platform? Here’s everything you need to know.

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics.

You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder.

Experts and r/ChangeMyView subreddit moderators offer 10 tips to debunk conspiracy theories convincingly—and kindly.

Keep your personal information personal

«Our goal in this article is to help you condense your attack surface as much as possible.»

A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet.

Amazon is now making up to £8,800 a second, while concerns persist about its tax affairs, treatment of staff and effect on small retailers. Here’s how to buy everything from technology to beauty to…

Online reviews have a big impact on buying decisions – but how can shoppers sort the real ones from the fakes?

Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.

In this piece you will learn about: 1) our hypothesis on why young people today are in a state of identity crisis or, as we call it, “identity moratorium”, 2) five key trends that drive this crisis,…

Apps like BeReal and Mastodon broke out in 2022. It's only the beginning.

An attempt at creating real digital life

A digital detox is a period in which a person voluntarily refrains from using digital devices including smartphones, computers and social media platforms. However, recent research has shown that…

«The internet has made it possible to talk at length with strangers who share your passion for any subject—make the most of it»

AI image synthesis goes open source, with big implications.

«Image synthesis arguably brings implications as big as the invention of the camera—or perhaps the creation of visual art itself. Even our sense of history might be at stake, depending on how things shake out. Either way, Stable Diffusion is leading a new wave of deep learning creative tools that are poised to revolutionize the creation of visual media»

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint these days. But is it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do the endless alerts and distractions stop us forming new memories?

Apps are supposed to make life easier, but they’re stressing employees out.

It's not necessarily just wishful thinking.

«While it may get you into a positive mindset and help you focus on reaching your goals, the idea of manifestation can fail to acknowledge some of the systemic barriers to success in our society, Bartz points out.»

Excerpt from the new book Global Natives

Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.

Read-write intelligence.

«The result of communing with it is a sort of “emergence,” they told me, an experience of “being part of a larger ecosystem than just the individual human or the machine.”»

Technology is always changing the nature of human life.

AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.