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The Download: tech’s gender gap, and how Gen Z handles misinformation

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Amazon wants to start offering teletherapy The e-commerce giant is rapidly expanding into healthcare. (Insider $)+ And it’s expanding its palm... Read more »

Why can’t tech fix its gender problem?

Not competing in this Olympics, but still contributing to the industry’s success, were the thousands of women who worked in the Valley’s microchip fabrication plants and other manufacturing facilities from the 1960s... Read more »

Google examines how different generations handle misinformation

Essentially, the study concludes that younger people are more likely to think they may have unintentionally shared false or misleading information—often driven by the pressure to share emotional content quickly. However, they... Read more »

The Download: psychedelics for women, and Roe v. Wade online

Psychedelics are having a moment. After decades of prohibition and vilification, they are increasingly being employed as therapeutics. Drugs like ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin mushrooms are being studied in clinical trials to... Read more »

Psychedelics are having a moment and women could be the ones to benefit

“We started our company knowing that women over 40 are prescribed antidepressants at more than three to four times the rate of men, which has led to one in every five women... Read more »

The Download: fixing social media, and US monkeypox vaccines

We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to be exposed... Read more »

Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem

Moderation (whether automated or human) can potentially work for what we call “acute” harms: those caused directly by individual pieces of content. But we need this new approach because there are also... Read more »

The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online

Throughout the day, Wedd­ington and her staff “pumped reporters for information,” she later wrote in her 2013 book A Question of Choice. She found a lawyer friend who could go to the... Read more »

The Download: corruption in China’s chip sector and VR’s psychedelic experiments

The news: China’s chipmaking industry has descended into chaos, with at least four top executives associated with a state-owned semiconductor fund recently arrested on corruption charges. It’s an explosive turn of events... Read more »

VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence

As we inched nearer, I worried about infringing upon the other participants’ personal space. Then I remembered that oceans and thousands of miles separated me from them—and wasn’t ditching the notion of... Read more »