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January/February 2020 / Technology

How YouTube Gives Us Love Without the Messiness

January 2, 2020January 9, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Meet the online community providing millions with illusions of intimacy

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The Decade in Science and Technology

December 26, 2019December 21, 2019 - by The Walrus Staff

From surveillance capitalism to Russian hacking, these are the science and tech conversations that helped define Canada

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UK information commissioner Elizabeth Denham

May 2019 / Technology

Is Elizabeth Denham the Only Person Powerful Enough to Take on Facebook?

April 18, 2019November 15, 2019 - by Leah McLaren

How a privacy regulator from British Columbia forced Silicon Valley to change the way it uses your personal data

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May 2019 / Society / Technology

Are You Afraid of Google? BlackBerry Cofounder Jim Balsillie Says You Should Be

April 10, 2019November 15, 2019 - by Brian J. Barth

The entrepreneur who made billions putting BlackBerrys into pockets is now sounding the alarm about Big Tech’s creep toward surveillance capitalism

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The Deadly Price of the Automation Paradox

March 29, 2019September 26, 2019 - by Sharon Nadeem

As automation gets better, the skills of human operators gets worse. Are the Boeing Max 8 crashes an anomaly, or a new normal?

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Illustration by Wenting Li

The Future of Privacy

February 1, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Molly Sauter

Will your life ever be private online?

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December 2018 / Technology

The Secret to the Perfect Lullaby

December 25, 2018November 14, 2019 - by David Sax

One of the world’s biggest toy makers races to engineer music that will put all babies to sleep

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The Rise of the Tech-Savvy Parent

September 26, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Angela Misri

Is the younger generation really digitally superior? Not in my experience

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Why the Unapologetic Representation of LGBTQ Love in Online Games Is Worth Celebrating

June 28, 2018July 10, 2019 - by Amanda Scriver

As a queer woman, I never thought I belonged in the gaming world. I was wrong

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Signing Away Our Lives on Facebook

June 1, 2018July 9, 2019 - by University of King's College

The social media giant collects huge quantities of data to target advertising—and that has implications for our lives, our society, and our democracy

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