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Google's Latest Hire Has a Creepy Plan to Track Your Mental Health

Google's parent company Alphabet has just hired Thomas Insel, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, who has some pretty weird ideas about what his new job will entail. Insel told a crowd at Chicago …

Why America's Top Mental Health Researcher Joined Alphabet

Insel notes the obvious: wealthy tech companies have realized that health care is a bigger business than software and gadgets (it's about 20 percent of the U.S. GDP), and so it's one they should get into. But he says he also …