Tech Addiction, Data Black Box, Refugees, Data & Medicine, Advertising is the Villain. Five Things - Issue #100

If the food you eat changes your health, so does your technological diet. Here's what researchers of digital health need to learn from the study of nutrition.

Rapid advances in machine learning have prompted much debate about the sinister implications of 'black-box' algorithms. 

I was a child refugee. I know how it feels to live in a camp, robbed of my humanity, says the artist and activist Ai Weiwei.

NO WONDER they are called “patients”. When people enter the health-care systems of rich countries today, they know what they will get: prodding doctors, endless tests, baffling jargon, rising costs and, above all, long waits. Some stoicism will always be needed, because health care is complex and diligence matters.

From Russian propaganda to tech addiction, the incentives and excesses of the digital ad business are the cause of much of what ails online discourse.

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