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The longtime privacy journalist on how investigating Clearview AI helped her appreciate facial recognition—and envision a chaotic futureFace Scanning and the Freedom To “Be Stupid In Public”: A Conversation with…
Do you remember when Apple first introduced its QR code scanning feature? You know, the one where you point your camera at a QR code, a bubble appears, and you…
Remember Tessa, the chatbot that was designed to help users combat disordered eating habits but ended up giving absolutely terrible, eating disorder-validating advice? Well, if the story wasn’t stupid enough already,…
All those cool widgets and embeds you like because they make your site “better”. You know the chatbox, Yelp reviews carousel, the fly-in Instagram embed that looks like a 90s…
A few Tweets aside, I haven’t said much about the metaverse. This is entirely because I think the metaverse as currently advertised is incredibly stupid. Some see a sort of…