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A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.

The so-called lost decade has now stretched to three. What went wrong, asks Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.

Outside your door stands a line of a few hundred people. They are patiently waiting for you to answer their questions, complaints, pull requests, and feature requests. You want to help all of them,…

Selena Gomez, Lizzo and Tom Holland have all taken breaks from Instagram and Twitter. Others have abandoned social media for good. Does it really make them happier?

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You may be familiar with the truffle oil scam, but everything else you think you know about truffles is probably a lie too.

Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain.

Facebook pretends to be a social network that connects you with your friends, but it hasn't done that in a long time.

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.

Technology at the table is bad for human connection.

Signal recently killed SMS support as part of that mission.

Morning larks don't always run the show.

Try batching your notifications, hiding social media apps, and setting your screen to grayscale

Every successful startup needs a fanbase. To build one, learn from the masters.

culture by algorithm in the 21st century

One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.

Two 90-year-old women remember the clothes, manners and copious mud of Victorian London when they were teenagers

New study first to establish causal link between use of the platform and reported worsening in anxiety and depression among college students

Children as young as seven years old may hesitate to ask questions in school because they worry classmates will think they are “stupid”

This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published by Onomatopee. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company

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Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.