Spotify is testing polls to make podcasts more interactive

Spotify wants to make it easier for podcasters and listeners to interact. Today, it’s launching Polls, a new feature that will allow podcasters to ask questions directly in the app. When listeners respond, they’ll see how their answers stack up again...

Researchers easily breached voting machines for the 2020 election

The voting machines that the US will use in the 2020 election are still vulnerable to hacks. A group of ethical hackers tested a bunch of those voting machines and election systems (most of which they bought on eBay). They were able to crack into eve...

Instagram’s direct message polls give you private feedback

Instagram's polls are good for soliciting feedback (or just stroking your ego), but what if you'd rather not share the results with absolutely all of your followers? You now have that option. Poll stickers are now available for direct messages, mak...

Earthquake science explains why election polls were so wrong

Polls are not predictors. This is the message that American University history professor Allan Lichtman has been screaming at the world since 1981: It's not that the polling system itself is broken -- instead, polls behave exactly as they're designe...

Recommended Reading: Trump’s own polling models prove accurate

Trump's Big Data Mind Explains How He Knew Trump Could Win Izzie Lapowsky, Wired While it could take some time to uncover the finer points of why the polls were so far off in the 2016 presidential election, the head of President-elect Donald Trum...