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Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

Technology

Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

Giving chatbots an artificial personality can help them make small talk – though some just end up talking about themselves

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Technology

YouTube's bots aren't protecting kids from all its nasty videos

Insight

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Technology

Powerful or powerless: The backdoor to our cyberfuture

Culture

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Humans

We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

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Tweeting from bed

Technology

Sex tweets help track spread of sexually transmitted infections

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A teen sat on a wall outside typing on a cellphone

Technology

We should teach kids how to use social media, not scare them off

Analysis

Time to fix an internet bust by surveillance capitalism's demand for data

Technology

Time to fix an internet bust by surveillance capitalism's demand for data

Culture

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'Scary' spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species

Life

'Scary' spider photos on Facebook are revealing new species

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Technology

Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds

You’re not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate

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Technology

Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl

News

Technology

Your data is too valuable and sensitive to dish out for free

Leader

Humans

How YouTube Kids can solve its Peppa Pig cannibalism problem

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Technology

Three competing visions of our future communities

Culture