Month: August 2020

As we noted in the Stupefied column a little while back: Your brain doesn't full develop until you're through your early twenties. That's a fact of neuroscience. Maybe that's why... As coronavirus cases among young people continue to spread throughout the country, videos posted to social media showed a large gathering near one Georgia college...

Facebook publishes far more false health information than true information, according to a new study by Avaaz, a nonprofit devoted to disinformation research. Quoting from their Web site: Global health misinformation spreading networks spanning at least five countries generated an estimated 3.8 billion views on Facebook in the last year. Health misinformation spreading websites at...

Chat bots are becoming uncannily human. Can they be our friends? No. They can't. Chat programs call you up and chat with you and can respond to your remarks, within limits...But if we're so pathetic we must fall back on "chat bot" programs to be our "friends", it bespeaks a dire need, which calls for...

White House aides reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore. Trump had raised the idea with the governor of South Dakota. She initially thought he was joking. 'I started laughing," she said. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious." No joke:...

As Geoffrey Fowler in the Washington Post reports, "Echo Frames are eye glasses "with tiny speakers and a microphone so you can have your own private conversations with Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant everywhere you go...This new version of Alexa is much more proactive about chatting." He reports that it is "driving him bananas" and not...