Wherein our columnist gives up on shopping and lets Amazon’s Personal Shopper dress her for fall. By Katherine Bernard This is a retail review in which I do not leave my apartment. All of the ...
I outsourced several of my daily decisions to algorithms for a week, to better understand the lines of code playing a greater and greater role in guiding our lives. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a ...
Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...
Cleanse your timeline just in time for the new year. The post How To See & Change Your Algorithm With Instagram’s New Feature ...
Sometimes, while scrolling through TikTok—as I did for a horrifying 17 hours and 53 minutes last week—I’ll have a strange out-of-body experience. I’ll see a video, chuckle, then move on to the next ...
I listen to a lot of music. In December when Spotify put out its handy tool for measuring how much music you listened to in 2015, I clocked in at 110,000 minutes. By Rent calculations, that’s over a ...
Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...