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The triumph of ‘digital Taylorism’ means that many jobs in the modern economy have been sapped of their humanity, write professors Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger

The need for a Humans 101 course, and what it might contain

About one in 13 Scots are placed on a police database aimed at protecting "vulnerable" people.

Google has started letting people report adverts that know “too much” about them. The company delivers personalised display ads that are targeted at individual users, based on a number of factors.

So, it's a good thing no one reads them!

His Yom Kippur message seems to be another reaction to Facebook’s role in the Russia scandal.

User research and a human centred design approach form the basis of ustwo’s thinking on autonomy and driverless cars.

The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.

Testimony from those working to keep beheadings, bestiality and child sexual abuse images off Facebook indicates that the support provided isn’t enough

“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by …

Three ways that modern internet technologies are tearing our young people apart

Google killed off a new Maps feature in under a day because it rubbed users the wrong way. What can we learn from this in building our own products?

In the past few years, we’ve been deluged with discussions of how artificial intelligence (AI) will either save or destroy the world…

I temporarily closed my FB group last week because of this pattern: white women were getting free educations and 1:1 support in the comment threads, primarily from women of colour. This was exhausting, frustrating and hurtful to women of colour. As the leader of the group, it’s my responsibility to create a different environment and dynamic […]

Strange as it may sound, one key to success is not giving your customers what they want.

Social networks train us to focus on images and emotions, sapping the quest for knowledge.

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While the US debates to what extent Russia influenced its presidential election, a small country in northern Europe is already gearing up to fend off foreign interference in its next election.

Former Facebook president Sean Parker hits the company for its effect on society: "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains" pic.twitter.com/8GI0DykJGB— Axios (@axios) November 9, 2017

Twitter neglected to roll out the new 280 character limit for vision-impaired people who use a screen reader.

In this report, the author draws on interviews with journalists and critics, as well as a broad reading of published work, to assess the current state of technology coverage and criticism in the popular discourse, and to offer some thoughts on how to move the critical enterprise forward. Tow Fellow Sara Watson finds that what it means to cover technology is a moving target. Today, the technology beat focuses less on the technology itself and more on how technology intersects with and transforms everything readers care about—from politics to personal relationships. But as technology coverage...

The Superintendent of Well-Being at Google discusses his morning routine and the book that changed his life.

I’m not on Facebook. In fact, I deactivated my Facebook account in 2008. Since then, I’ve enjoyed four, Facebook-free years. Has my life become less sociable as a result? No. Do I miss Facebook? No…

In The Matrix, machines harvest energy from humans by subduing their minds with an advanced computer simulation. In our world, Facebook…

The algorithms Facebook and other tech companies use to boost engagement – and increase profits – have led to spectacular failures of sensitivity and worse…

There is a saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out. When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?