In NY Post, McDiarmid on Social Isolation and the Tech Nightmare

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The wearable AI necklace, Friend, opens up a whole new chapter of horror. It’s not a parody: young people wear their “Friend” on their person. Source
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Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

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Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Source
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