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WITHOUT perclouds you may not do anything else right

This is an answer to a question I just received about the percloud, my proposal for really usable alternatives to centralized social networks and services like Gmail and Facebook.

On the real impact of fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles

Fake news, echo chambers, filter bubbles: how much do they REALLY create or influence people’s opinions on politics, or anything else?

The science of genetics-based dating is dubious at best. If you are lucky

Wired reports that a new dating app sends users a swab kit in order to “match potential mates based on genetic and social compatibility”.

Please STOP demanding (self) regulation of Facebook, INSTEAD of turning it into a...

Today, a former Washington Post publisher and Facebook board member rightly opposed requests “for the regulation of big technology companies”… but omitting a crucial point.

The progress behind digital loneliness

I just read something that feels like “everything today’s tech is doing wrong, in ONE SENTENCE”. Then I realized another way to look at it.

The next three titles about cops with fingerprint scanners

Wired reports that “UK police are now using fingerprint scanners on the streets to identify people in less than a minute”. I have a feeling that the next three titles on the same topic may be something like these: