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"Naturally, they know what you've browsed or bought on their main service. They also know what you've asked Alexa, watched on Prime, and read on your Kindle. They know even more thanks to their ownership of Whole Foods, Ring, Eero, Twitch, Goodreads, IMDB and Audible."

"When the Harvard psychiatrist and tech consultant John Torous learned that Facebook monitors its users' posts for warning signs that they might be at risk of suicide, he was shocked. Having grown accustomed to working with tech giants like Microsoft on scientific research, he wondered why he'd never heard about Facebook's program. He was even more surprised to find out that as part of its efforts, Facebook was sending emergency responders to people's homes. Facebook's monitoring tool has been running since 2017 and was involved in sending emergency responders to people more than 3,500 times as of last fall, the company said. But the reason Torous hadn't heard of it is because the company hasn't shared information about the tool with researchers such as him, or with the broader medical and scientific community."

"We're under social media assault from paid personalities willing to sell us anything - even a music festival that doesn't exist"

"The cost of being always available. The cost of having fragmented conversation. The cost of a rewired brain. The cost of our privacy. The literal, spiraling cost of buying the latest technology. For these and other economic reasons, sales of iPhones and other smartphones have recently plateaued and even declined. At the same time, some people have gone back to the simpler, less addictive phones used in the late 1990s and early 2000s: the flip phone, the "candybar" phone, and other basic "feature" phones that can only talk and text."

"The tech giant records people's locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent."

Multimedia package that illustrates how facial recognition software work and could be used.

"It's easy to blame adolescent angst on technology. After all, the suddenness of technology's sheer ubiquity makes it the obvious culprit. But isn't it also possible that technology just amplifies all of the world's other problems-like climate change, gun violence, the difficulty of getting into college, and more? Plus, technology provides youth a place to escape from these problems and to commiserate with peers. It's complex and there's still a lot we don't know."

"The company showed off a bunch of creative new ideas, from an in-app gaming platform to Snap stories coming to outside apps like Tinder. But the standout was a new feature called Landmarkers, which allows you to remix the world around you with augmented reality filters in real time."

Almost 25 years ago, Amazon.com went live and changed the way the world bought books. Today, Amazon ($NASDAQ:AMZN) sells everything from books, to music, to clothes, to household supplies, to flooring.

"ewspapers publish a tremendous number of facts and our error rates are astonishingly low. We correct errors prominently (as the Times did immediately in this case)."

"The most important financial center in the world?  A fabled place of silver spoons and golden parachutes?  A hub of cut-throat capitalism? Or all of the above. Wall Street is many things to many people, and the perception of what it really is depends on who you ask. Although people's views of Wall Street may differ widely, what is beyond dispute is its enduring impact not just on the American economy, but on the global one."

"Every tweet you like, every Facebook post you publish, every email you send - it all creates a digital record that will likely exist for your entire life. That digital footprint can have an impact on your reputation as you search for a job, market your professional services, etc"

Basically watch what you do on the interweb you sly dog

this is the worst post ive read since dans

" One year later, in July 1995, Bezos formally launched Amazon.com, and the rest is history."

this sucks

not funny max

"You may not hear much about the crisis called "distracted living". This is where you miss out on much of your life because you generally aren't paying attention - or your attention is so torn in many directions that you really don't focus on anything."

"How often are you diverted from a task by the seductive lure of your mobile phone? And does it matter? In a landmark book, James Williams argues we're losing the power to concentrate"

"Automated social media accounts can create "misinformation networks" that spread falsehoods and fan the flames of partisan disagreement"

"John Giannandrea, who was at the time Google's head of engineering, though he would soon oversee all of the company's AI and search products, eventually leaving to join Apple, told me that core AI research on simple things like handwriting was essential."

"Building a business is no easy feat. As a two-time entrepreneur, I've experienced the ups and downs of building a company and culture. "