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Online dating: Who are you really talking to?
It can be daunting to take the leap of faith into the world of online dating, not really knowing who is on the other end of your messages. How would you feel knowing that you may not even be talking to the same person throughout your entire correspondence?
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Ilona Cabral
, written on From the Love desk
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Silicon Valley capitalists are heading to Eastern Europe
Philip Weiss, a digital nomad and travel blogger, has called Belgrade, Serbia, home for several months now. He first visited the Eastern European (EE) capital seven years ago when he was passing by en route to Croatia for the summer.
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Stav Dimitropoulos
, written on From the Europe desk
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A strange 'pig couch' scam keeps popping up on Craigslist
A Craigslist post advertising a “unique pig couch” for $250 has been causing a frenzy on Twitter. But it looks like someone's telling porkies...
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the News desk
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Social media predictions for 2021
Social apps are changing rapidly. Really rapidly. Here are a few of my predictions as to how social apps will continue to evolve in 2021.
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Greg Isenberg
, written on From the Disruption desk
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Parler users are still trying to convince everyone they're leaving Twitter
Since the U.S. election, Parler downloads have skyrocketed as millions of users have signed up to escape a perceived “anti-conservative” bias among mainstream social media platforms.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the Twitter desk
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AI can now produce passable parody song lyrics
The coronavirus pandemic has caused many outbursts of creativity, but few have the potential to be as meaningful as Mark O. Riedl’s lockdown project. The academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of interactive computing has spent the last several long months producing an artificial intelligence system that’s able to produce lyrics for parody songs, similar to those produced by Weird Al Yankovic.
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Chris Stokel-Walker
, written on From the Culture desk
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When it comes to social commerce, influencers and Twitch streamers are thriving
Atarabyte is a Twitch streamer living in South Korea who is currently doing daily streams on Amazon Live. She started last year when the platform was just taking off, and she has come a long way since she first started streaming on Justin.TV ten years ago.
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Aimee Pearcy
, written on From the Ecommerce desk
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Tech CEOs should stop using Science Fiction as a blueprint for humanity’s future in space
In September 2016, Elon Musk went before the International Astronautical Congress with a program that outlined an ambitious set of goals: lay out the steps that would help establish a permanent human presence on Mars.
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Andrew Liptak
, written on From the Odd Futurism desk
