Social

19 January 2021

A Parler Trick: How to Make a Social Network Disappear

It was a disappearing act that would make Houdini proud. One moment Parler was here and then, Poof, it was gone. So how did the social network with 12 million…

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Technology

30 September 2020

How Human Curation is Making its Way in the World of Artificial Intelligence

It wasn’t so long ago that self-driving cars, virtual assistants (like Amazon’s Alexa and  Apple’s Siri), and chatbots were just concepts. Today, Artificial intelligence (AI) is a part of almost…

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Identity

15 September 2020

Who Owns your Digital Identity?

Throughout our lives, we are required to show ID (e.g., birth certificate, driver’s license, passport) to identify ourselves—to prove our true identity. We consider those documents valuable—we make sure they…

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Technology

27 August 2020

The Decentralists – Hot Topix: Store Wars

On this episode of The Decentralists, we are talking about a literal Epic—as in, Epic Games’ antitrust battle against Apple and Google.

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Identity

25 June 2020

Are contact tracing apps a time bomb for civil liberties violations?

You didn’t install it. Apple and Google did it for you. According to the BBC, COVID-19 contact tracing is now baked into iOS and Android operating systems. This new functionality alerts…

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Technology

11 June 2020

The Decentralists – Episode 1: It began with a sliver

In this first episode of The Decentralists, Manyone Co-Founder Michael Cholod of The Decentralists, we introduce Manyone Co-Founder Michael Cholod. Michael discusses how he wants to change social media for the better

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Technology

18 April 2020

Apple and Google weaponize their App stores and Fortnite says goodnight

On August 13th Apple kicked the uber-popular, Fortnite gaming App off the Apple App Store for violating store guidelines. Epic Games (the company behind Fortnite) immediately responded with a lawsuit alleging anti-competitive…

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