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Your Netflix recommendations suck. These tools will help you improve them Ditch the Netflix recommendations Netflix’s My List sucks. IMDb is your friend If I wanted to make a Christmas wish, it would be Netflix adding a playlist feature to its platform. Currently, it just has one dumb function called ‘My list’— and all you can do is just add or remove titles from it.There’s no way you can differentiate movies, TV shows, and documentaries you want to watch....

Your smart devices are spying on you — here’s how to limit the privacy damage Think before you buy Internet of Things Your appliances, car, and home are designed to make your life easier and automate tasks you perform daily: switch lights on and off when you enter and exit a room, remind you that your tomatoes are about to go bad, personalize the temperature of the house depending on the weather and preferences of each person in the household....

Your social media ‘engagement’ is making you vulnerable to manipulation Algorithms are partly to blame From lions on the savanna to likes on Facebook The concept of the wisdom of crowds assumes that using signals from others’ actions, opinions and preferences as a guide will lead to sound decisions. For example,collective predictionsare normally more accurate than individual ones. Collective intelligence is used to predictfinancial markets, sports,electionsand evendisease outbreaks. Throughout millions of years of evolution, these principles have been coded into the human brain in the form of cognitive biases that come with names likefamiliarity,mere-exposureandbandwagon effect....

Your social media ‘engagement’ is making you vulnerable to manipulation Algorithms are partly to blame From lions on the savanna to likes on Facebook The concept of the wisdom of crowds assumes that using signals from others’ actions, opinions and preferences as a guide will lead to sound decisions. For example,collective predictionsare normally more accurate than individual ones. Collective intelligence is used to predictfinancial markets, sports,electionsand evendisease outbreaks. Throughout millions of years of evolution, these principles have been coded into the human brain in the form of cognitive biases that come with names likefamiliarity,mere-exposureandbandwagon effect....

Your Spotify Wrapped 2021 is embarrassing and there’s nothing you can do about it Wrapped is already a wrap Story byThomas Macaulay Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy.Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW. He covers European tech, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, and government policy. Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....