Apr 13, 2018 4:17 PM

This Week, We All Woke up to Facebook's Shenanigans

On this episode of the Gadget Lab podcast, we discuss Facebook's future relationship with its users, and with the governments who seek to regulate it.

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How Many Billions Would It Take to Hold Meta Accountable?

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The Social Reckoning Already Feels Irrelevant

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We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dive into an unexpected Muse feature, shadowy spending from the largest pro-AI super PAC, and men’s tendency to lie about how much they know about AI.

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Instagram Is a Streaming Service Now

Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

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Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’

MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.

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My Friend Has No Soul

The second iteration of the viral Friend AI necklace is louder and less interesting.

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Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

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Livestream Replay: Watch Uncanny Valley on Women, Tech, and Power

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What the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Everywhere Else

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

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