Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices. Dark patterns can be found in many kinds of sites and are used by…
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Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what they were. Several weeks later,…
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Sveriges Riksbank published a set of proposals on June 8 designed to improve public scrutiny of its policies. The text – authored by governor Stefan Ingves and deputy head of the general secretariat Pernilla Meyersson…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Crude prices fell a second day in a row on Tuesday, with market bulls counting on U.S. inventory data due after settlement hours to prop up sentiment deflated…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Declining an invitation by saying “I don’t have time” leads the person you rejected to feel undervalued and upset, making them…
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Olympians are often seen as the epitome of human performance, with incredible physical and mental strength. And with the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games well underway, it’s hard to not be impressed by the sheer talent…
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© Bloomberg. Residents receive nucleic acid tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nanjing in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. Source: STR/AFP/Getty Images (Bloomberg) — China is renewing restrictions and canceling flights as a Covid-19 resurgence in…
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Using social media celebrities to advertise products – influencer marketing – is a lucrative and rapidly growing industry, projected to be worth up to US$15 billion (£10.7 billion) by 2022. Influencers profit from their online…
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The European Central Bank profits in 2020 declined by 30% in comparison with 2019, mainly due to lower returns on its US dollar portfolio. The ECB profit fell to €1.6 billion ($1.93 billion), from €2.4…
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Facebook recently announced significant changes to Instagram for users aged under 16. New accounts will be private by default, and advertisers will be limited in how they can reach young people. The new changes are…
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