Science, Technology, and Social Media

Drone Spying Bill Passed by Florida Senate

The Florida Senate passed (SB-44) on a 39 to 0 vote, a bill granting exceptions “for drone use by law…

3 years ago

Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes

Zhong-Lin Lu, Knowable Magazine OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of…

3 years ago

Social Media Doesn’t Allow Posts That Break COVID-19 Narratives, Even Though Health Organizations Keep Backtracking Previous Findings

Social media companies have policed coronavirus-related content based on information from top health organizations, even as those organizations have contradicted…

3 years ago

Nearly Every Lawmaker Overseeing Privacy, Antitrust Issues Received Big Tech Money In 2020

Nearly all members of Congress who oversee privacy and antitrust issues have received donations or lobbying money from Big Tech,…

3 years ago

Facebook Confirms It Deleted Account For Suspected Boulder Shooter Containing Posts About Islam, Trump

Facebook deleted accounts belonging to suspected Boulder, Colorado, shooter Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa on Tuesday in line with its longstanding…

3 years ago

Trump To Return To Social Media on His Own Platform

Jason Miller made a comment Sunday that will excite Trump supporters across the country. The former Trump adviser said that…

3 years ago

AI’s next big leap

Anil Ananthaswamy, Knowable Magazine The unlikely marriage of two major artificial intelligence approaches has given rise to a new hybrid…

3 years ago

Parler is Dead and It’s Their Fault

Parler could have been the answer to Twitter, but it failed to anticipate Apple, Google and Amazon's censorship. Beyond the…

3 years ago

Clay Travis Says Facebook’s ‘Orwellian’ Censorship Cost Company ‘Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars’

Clay Travis, who runs the sports website Outkick, testified before Congress on Friday that Facebook cost his company ‘hundreds of…

3 years ago

Memory, the mystery

Adam Levy, Knowable Magazine PODCAST, EPISODE 4: Just in the past half-century, our understanding of how exactly our brains remember…

3 years ago