🏥 Leaked documents say Cerebral harmed patients seeking mental-health care

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Leaked documents say Cerebral harmed patients seeking mental-health care. From the outside, Cerebral appeared to be a Silicon Valley success story. The San Francisco-based startup launched in 2020 with a bold mission — to democratize access to high-quality mental-health treatment. Patients would pay for access to… (Shelby Livingston, Blake Dodge / Business Insider)

Blake Dodge @dodgeblake

2,000 leaked documents and employees say Silicon Valley healthcare startup @cerebral harmed hundreds of patients and prescribed serious medication with abandon ➡️ 7,400-word byline from @ShelbyJLiv and me, with help from @Megan_Hernbroth.

businessinsider.com2,000 leaked documents and employees say Silicon Valley healthcare startup Cerebral harmed hundreds of patients and prescribed serious medi…Cerebral wanted to change mental-health care. Instead, it took on patients it couldn’t handle and pushed its providers beyond their expertise.

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The iPhone at 15: An Inside Look at How Apple Transformed a Generation. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone went on sale. On that same day, a boy named Noah Schmick was born. Over the next 15 years, the iPhone grew…and so did Noah. Through interviews with current and former Apple executives, WSJ's… (Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal)

Joanna Stern @JoannaStern

On June 29, 2007 the iPhone was released to the world and so was Noah Schmick. I traced the last 15 years of the iPhone alongside Noah’s life to see how it changed all of us—especially the younger generation. Watch the full @WSJ documentary at wsj.com/iPhonebaby

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The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet. Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can't imagine having read in any other place, or at any other time in history. Near the top of any list of the most… (Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Tiffany @kait_tiffany

i wrote about how you can look through the replies and quote-tweets of "everything happens so much" and piece together all the worst days of the past 10 years lol

theatlantic.comThe 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the InternetA cryptic utterance from a supposed spambot never lost its relevance.

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This Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body Language. Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, and a factory robot anyone can program. Now… (Will Knight / WIRED)

Will Knight @willknight

I had fun talking to roboticist @rodneyabrooks for a story about his new warehouse robot, which aims to understand what humans are doing. That might seem simple, but it's extremely challenging, and it could lead to a more complex relationship with robots.

wired.comThis Warehouse Robot Reads Human Body LanguageMachines that understand what their human teammates are doing could boost productivity without taking jobs.

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Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world. Alphabet and Reddit did not respond at all to multiple emails requesting comment as of Monday evening. Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, referred MIT Technology Review to its existing policies on government requests, and declined to… (Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review)

Abby Ohlheiser @abbyohlheiser

On Fri, @hanamkiros and I asked five big tech companies: 1) Will they apply rules against "illegal" content to abortion convos post-Dobbs 2) Will they comply with govt data requests to prosecute abortions You'll never guess what happened next?

technologyreview.comBig Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe USWe asked Meta, Twitter, Google, TikTok, and Reddit how they will moderate abortion content and handle subpoenas and warrants for data on people who seek or assist with abortions.

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