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Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.

The program aims to notify people after they’ve come in close contact with someone who tested positive.

Insert dial-up noise here. If you’re not concerned about what’s about to happen with net neutrality, you’re not paying attention. 

We used to use technology. Now technology uses us. Silicon Valley ethicist Tristan Harris explains how the attention economy hijacked our self-worth for profit.

Dyslexia makes letters float, rotate, and flip on a page. It turns M’s into W’s, q’s into p’s, and so on. Changing the font-face might be able to help keep the letters in place on the page.

Don’t work with children or animals? Sir David Attenborough laughs in the face of danger.