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October 17, 2014 Rhett Jones

Ello — the hot, new, all-anyone-could-talk-about-for-one-day social network — built up buzz by saying it would never have ads or sell your info. But does it seem a little boring, a little useless, and a little bit lonely? Maybe you’re just suffering from ad withdrawal. Now two dudes have stepped in to make Ello just as busy and soul-draining as Facebook! Ello […]

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October 4, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Artist and composer Ben Grosser created a new Google Chrome extension that, when enabled, automatically adds a passage of additional algorithmically generated text to your emails containing many of the keywords known to trigger the National Security Agency‘s email surveillance systems. This extension, in theory, works as a trap to not only force these systems to […]

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August 19, 2013 Andy Cush

For those of you who are concerned about the government–or anyone else–profiling you based on your web-surfing habits, here’s Paranoid Browsing, a new Chrome extension that may throw big brother off your trail. It works by opening a tab in the background that randomly browses through the internet, jamming your history with sites you didn’t […]

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July 22, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Okay, so someone who happens to be royalty is having a baby. That’s great, and it’s undoubtably a big news event considering that this soon to be baby could one day inherit the British throne. However, that’s not much of a pressing concern to some of us in the U.S., and there’s no reason that […]

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