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The Evolution of Influencers and Online Careers

In 2012, “influencer” wasn’t a job title. It wasn’t even really a word in this sense. The people who would come to be called influencers

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Deepfakes and Misinformation — How Real Is the Threat?

There’s a video of a public official saying something they didn’t say. It was made with publicly available software, by someone without specialized skills, in

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Screen Time and Mental Health — What the Research Actually Shows

If you follow health media, you might have gotten the impression that smartphones are destroying an entire generation’s mental health, with research to prove it.

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Privacy Concerns — Is Your Data Actually Safe?

The honest answer to “is my data safe?” is: it depends on who you’re asking about, what kind of safety you mean, and your tolerance

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The Future of TikTok in the U.S.

TikTok has now been “potentially getting banned” in the United States for long enough that the potential ban has become almost as much a part

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Are We Becoming Too Dependent on Technology?

I got on the subway last week and realized halfway through the ride that my phone was dead. I had no idea where I was

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The Ethical Debate Around AI-Generated Content

When a photograph could be doctored in a darkroom, we developed skepticism about photographs. When Photoshop became democratized, we developed more. The technology changes; the

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How AI Tools Are Changing School and Work Expectations

Two years ago, asking an AI to draft something for you felt slightly illicit — like a shortcut you weren’t sure was allowed. Now it’s

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Remote Work vs. Return to Office — What’s Actually Happening

The pandemic forced the largest work-from-home experiment in history. Millions of people who had been told their jobs required physical presence discovered — sometimes to

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How Grocery Prices Are Reshaping Family Budgets

My neighbor was telling me recently about how she’d started shopping at three different grocery stores on the same day to get the best prices

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