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I Cut The ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
1A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it’s possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one.
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These Academics Spent The Last Year Testing Whether Your Phone Is Secretly Listening To You
It’s the smartphone conspiracy theory that just won’t go away: Many, many people are convinced that their phones are listening to their conversations to target them with ads. Vice recently fuelled the paranoia with an article that declared “Your phone is listening and it’s not paranoia”, a conclusion the author reached based on a five-day…