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How the Arab uprisings were weakened by online fakes
The Arab uprisings a decade ago were supercharged by online calls to join the protests – but the Internet was soon flooded with misinformation, weakening the region’s cyber-activists.
Dating apps see matches bloom in India
Aditi Suman had not felt as liberated in her eight-year dating life as she did in August, locked up at home in Patna. The data scientist based out of Bengaluru had moved back for a couple of months during the pandemic and was looking for connections across multiple dating apps.
Not OK Google: Gmail now lets you disable suggestions for your emails
Gmail's eagerness to help you sort out your inbox and write emails faster by automatically reading all your messages is a welcome help to some and invasive and creepy to others.
Biden won the US election, but doomscrolling is here to stay
Berkeley entrepreneur Aza Raskin invented endless scroll technology in 2006 while working at a small user-interface company called Humanized. He has since expressed regret about how much this now ubiquitous online feature has shaped our lives.
Digital tech helps boost healthcare industry during pandemic
Why the healthcare industry needs to adapt with digital technology to continue serving patients and protect frontliners during the pandemic.
UK independent bookshops go online to reach new audiences
Faced with closures because of coronavirus measures and fierce competition from retail giant Amazon, 250 independent UK bookshops have banded together on a new online platform.
Even a pandemic can't stop the ever-growing popularity of geocaching
Deciphering codes, climbing trees, reading signs: Geocaching requires participants to fully immerse themselves. For more than two decades, people have been searching for hidden spots all over the world, and the pandemic has barely slowed the activity's growing popularity.
Study: DNA might replace barcodes to tag art, voter ballots
Easy-to-remove barcodes and QR codes used to tag everything from T-shirts to car engines may soon be replaced by a tagging system based on DNA and invisible to the naked eye, scientists said on Nov 5.
Did social media actually counter US election misinformation?
Ahead of the US election on Nov 3, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube promised to clamp down on election misinformation, including unsubstantiated charges of fraud and premature declarations of victory by candidates. And they mostly did just that – though not without a few hiccups.
Staring at a screen all day? Tips for keeping dry eye at bay
Although screens aren't the only cause of visual fatigue and dry eye syndrome, they're increasingly contributing to the ailment, which affects millions of people worldwide.
