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Are Emails the New Cookies?–Websites Look to New Ways to Track and Even Scam You

Ever since Facebook, now Meta, and Google, now Alphabet, came under siege for using cookies, or digital breadcrumbs, to track user history on the internet, creating an advertising model that allowed marketers to know your every digital whim and therefore … Continue reading

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ChatGPT Passes Wharton MBA Exam–Who Knew?

My first takeaway was that the exam was really easy or ChatGPT is really smart. It turns out that ChatGPT is really smart, smart enough to get a B or B- on a Wharton Operations Management test, according to Wharton … Continue reading

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Social Media at a Crossroads–U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Message Censorship and Liability Content Protection

Social media platforms are a little like a town hall meeting. You have to show up to watch, listen and learn; you have to be allowed to speak but can be removed if the moderators don’t approve of your speech … Continue reading

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“Just Be You”–BeReal App Seeks to Capture the Unfiltered You in the Moment

Is it curtains for PhotoShop or filters to put your best foot (or face) forward to the world, hoping to bait more “likes” or invite comments like “looking great,” “beautiful photo,” “I wish I were there,” to impress your friends … Continue reading

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New Study Finds Greatest Social Media Effects on Teens at Puberty and Then Around Age 19

Concern that social media use among teenagers is causing or contributing to high rates of depression, anxiety and suicide, is leading researchers to further parse the impact of social media platform use and intensity on such consequences. This is because, according to the NY … Continue reading

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Can’t Find Your Conspiracy Theory on Google? Try DuckDuckGo

If you’re slightly intrigued by the laid-back, slightly sarcastic demeanor of the narrator’s voice on DuckDuckGo’s radio and TV ads (her name is Erica Shaffer), promising that your hopes and dreams, personal habits, even skin rashes or what you look … Continue reading

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Behavioral Scholar Ties Beatles’ Success to “Social Influence Effects”

A pending article by Harvard legal and behavioral economics scholar Cass Sunstein attributes the Beatles’ iconic success to early champions and social influence, a combination of the their manager, Brian Epstein, and the fandom ignited by a culture created “[by] … Continue reading

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Google Hot On the Criminal’s Trail–Geofencing as Real Life Detective

  “I think I got him, boss.”  Tim McGee using geolocation tracking to hunt down a wanted suspect in the popular show, “NCIS.” It’s not a scene from “NCIS” or “The Enemy Within” or any number of other crime shows … Continue reading

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The Man From Delaware Might Not Be So Aware

Vice President Joe Biden and wife of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter at the secretary’s swearing-in ceremony.  She said the photo is misleading and the vice president’s behavior was not inappropriate. Ask most admirers and those women who have been … Continue reading

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Facebook Targets Hate Group and Vaccine Misinformation

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugs a mosque-goer at the Kilbirnie mosque in Wellington, New Zealand, on March 17, 2019 In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shootings in which 50 worshippers were killed by a white nationalist gunman, Facebook … Continue reading

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