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January 29, 2015 Rhett Jones

The trial of Ross Ulbricht just keeps getting weirder. Ulbricht is accused of being the founder of the online black market Silk Road and the court proceedings have been extremely unique due to the complicated, tech-world nature of the case. Not only is the New York Times reporting a conflict between the defense and prosecution over […]

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July 29, 2014 Sophie Weiner

After the mass media kerfuffle over Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment wherein the company manipulated 600,000 users’ feeds to study their emotional responses, dating megasite OKCupid made the unlikely choice of transparency regarding its own user testing. In a casual blog post, OKCupid announced the findings of three specific studies. The New York Times described the experiments: In one test, [OKCupid] […]

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