All good things must come to an end. Just like storm clouds can roll in and spoil a bright, sunny day, a dark cloud cover pattern can also signal the end of bullish stock behavior. This candlestick ...

If you’ve ever had to call to cancel a subscription you signed up for online in seconds, uncheck a preselected agreement to receive ads in the mail or been tricked into upgrading to a premium economy ...

ATLANTA — They are called dark patterns. Maybe you’ve never heard the term, but chances are you have been stuck in a dark pattern, a method websites used to purposely confuse and manipulate you online ...

Does this sound like something you’ve encountered online? You’ve looked at a shopping site because one item appealed to you, and then the site pops up lots of “special offers” tagged “just for you!” ...

Perhaps one of the most famous experiments in physics has been giving us the wrong message all these years. For nearly two centuries, the double-slit experiment has been providing a direct visual ...

You’ve probably seen privacy settings that seem intentionally confusing or have been forced to jump through hoops just to end an online subscription. All of those manipulative practices and confusing ...

There's this really big and expensive problem that's happening right now: dark patterns. Dark patterns are manipulative, often deceptive strategies that retailers and marketers use. Like you know when ...

There's no denying it — the internet is annoying. From endless website pop-ups and unavoidable cookies that track your every online move to chirpy "notifications" that try to shame us into registering ...

In 2016, dark patterns were wielded as weapons against democracy. To echo pretty much everyone on the planet, 2016 was a shit year. It was full of good people dying and bad people succeeding. But more ...

As I explain below, recent studies cast doubt on the legitimacy of the FTC’s case against Amazon—and some of the worst offenders are the FTC’s political enablers. Perhaps the FTC should help the ...