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As Big Tech companies face legal backlash for addictive features and potential mental health risk, parents are ceding responsibility for what happens inside the home. On March 25th, Meta and Google ...

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If you listen to the brightest minds in tech right now, you might think human disease is just a software bug waiting for a patch. I’ve spent my career straddling the mathematical elegance of ...

From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything. Credit...Illustration by Erik Carter Supported by By Willy ...