A new Google feature aimed at alerting people to scams has led to fears from privacy campaigners. The tool uses artificial intelligence to listen in on people’s phone calls, and try and spot if they sound like a scam. If they do, then a pop-up will show alerting people to a “likely scam”. We’re testing …
Every long-lasting friendship requires consistency—one woman says this consistency can look many different ways. A TikTok video posted by Jennifer Mika (@jennifermika_) has gone viral for revealing the way her and her long-distance friend maintain contact: with one person consistently acting as the “caller”, and the other being the “receiver”. Since her video was posted, …
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Before our first child was born last year, my wife and I often deliberated about the kind of parents we wanted to be—and the kind we didn’t. We watched families at restaurants sitting in silence, glued to their …