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What the World Should Learn from Australia’s Social Media Law
7+ hour, 45+ min ago (1131+ words) Australia’s new social media law took effect on Dec. 10, 2025, raising the age to open or maintain social media accounts to 16. It was a global first. The law called for the biggest social media platforms to do more than just ask…...
The Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Rewriting the Rules of Dating
1+ week, 5+ day ago (517+ words) Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. I used to say that I wouldn’t want to date someone who lives with their parents or with roommates. But with the current cost-of-living crisis, who can blame them?...
How to Make AI Data Centers More Sustainable
2+ week, 1+ day ago (430+ words) Follow this tag to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. In the public discourse, data centers have largely been cast as the villains of the AI boom—voracious consumers of natural resources that power our chatbots but threaten our…...
How ClarityCheck Encourages Safety in Today’s Online Interactions
2+ week, 3+ day ago (398+ words) With the support of a digital verification platform, users can ensure that the identity of an unknown contact is accurate. Building ClarityCheck as a Digital Safety Solution As a digital safety platform and online verification tool, ClarityCheck.com operates at…...
How the Iran War Could Threaten Global Internet Access
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1421+ words) A satellite view showing the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf, and the topography of the Middle East. Iran’s most powerful retaliatory weapon, the Strait of Hormuz, has disrupted shipping and led to a surge in energy prices around the…...
The ‘Trump Phone’ Has Been Repeatedly Delayed and Will No Longer Be Made in the U.S.
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (614+ words) At a glitzy event at Trump Tower on June 16, 2025, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump announced the launch of a new “all-American” cell phone service called Trump Mobile, with a flagship golden phone soon to follow. An estimated 600,000 people paid…...
What to Make of Social Media’s ‘Chinese Era’
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (901+ words) Social media users are “becoming Chinese” just in time for the Lunar New Year. But what’s behind the trend, and will it last?...
How to Fix the Internet
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (685+ words) I’m going to tell you something embarrassing. For a long time, I thought the internet would immediately make society better. How could it not? A world where everyone was more connected would be a world where everyone was more empathetic....
TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026: T-Mobile
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (33+ words) A decade ago, T-Mobile was the runt of America's Big Four wireless carriers. Today the un-carrier serves more than 142 million people—within striking distance of overtaking market leader Verizon—with......
Modern Dating Is Making Us Less Secure
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (671+ words) You go on three great dates. The conversation is easy. They text constantly for a week. Then they disappear for two days. When they return, they act as if nothing happened. You go along. You want to ask why they…...