Sometimes, true love is too good to be true. kate3155/iStock via Getty Images Fangzhou Wang, University of Texas at Arlington In the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler,” victims exposed notorious con artist Simon Leviev, who posed as a wealthy diamond mogul on the popular dating app Tinder to deceive and scam numerous women out of […]
We feel rewarded by reactions to information we share, and that can lead to good and bad habits. Linka A Odom/DigitalVision via Getty Images Ian Anderson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Gizem Ceylan, Yale University, and Wendy Wood, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Is social media designed to reward […]
This, nerdies and gentlegeeks, is the new X logo that Elon Musk had installed on the top of the ex-Twitter headquarter. Don’t stare at it for too long, else you might end up burning your retina. It also strobes in the most annoying way possible. Hope there are no epileptics around! Now try to imagine […]
Thinking of ChatGPT as a glider you pilot can help you use it more effectively. Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd/DigitalVision via Getty Images James Intriligator, Tufts University ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and essays, generate marketing copy and computer code, or simply as a learning or research […]
Facebook Meta’s Twitter alternative, Threads, is finally here, and so far, I quite like it! The company has a standalone app for the platform, but fortunately, it comes integrated with Instagram, which means you won’t have to start from scratch if you already have an IG account! That’s a HUGE headstart for the service if […]
Get ready for the ultimate showdown, geeks! Elon Musk, the brain behind Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, the mastermind behind Meta, are taking their battle to a whole new level: a cage match! These tech titans aren’t just fighting over users and money, they’re duking it out over their ideologies too. In one corner, we have […]
Scammers are blending different types of fraud to persuade people to hand over their cash. Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Stacey Wood, Scripps College and Yaniv Hanoch, University of Southampton Online fraud is today’s most common crime. Victims are often told they are foolish for falling for it, but fraudsters use psychological mechanisms to infiltrate the defences of their […]
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