Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%.
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Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice”
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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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The 👁👄👁 debacle sums up tech's race issues
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The rapid sharing of pandemic research shows there is a better way to filter good science from bad
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The infinite loop of supply chains
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The Last of Us Part II tries to be profound. It fails.
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America needs a ministry of (actual) truth
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A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics
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The Grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess: Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game
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Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy
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Dating apps exposed 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more
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An army of volunteers is taking on vaccine disinformation online
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Nintendo Game Boy hackers are building a better retro console
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Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
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On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around?
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It's called artificial intelligence—but what *is* intelligence?
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Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut
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The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods
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The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
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Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping
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World of Warcraft's game director Ion Hazzikostas on how the game's culture has evolved with the internet
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The Russian doll of Putin's internet clampdown
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The stockbrokers of Magic: The Gathering play for keeps
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Productivity is not working
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The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare
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Sweden's cashless society dream isn't all it's cracked up to be – as debates rage along lines of age, wealth and location, the country is looking to create a digital currency
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Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
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Who would have thought an iPad cursor could be so much fun?
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The untold story of the world's biggest diamond heist
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Derek Murphy investigates marathon runners whose times seem suspicious, which led him to the case of a seventy-year-old doctor named Frank Meza
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Physicists take their closest look yet at an antimatter atom
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Silicon Valley ruined work culture
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Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
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The Trump administration and the mandate for neo-classicism
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Inside SpinLaunch, the space industry’s best kept secret
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Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
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Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
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Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage
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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful?
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The strange life and mysterious death of Jerrold Haas, co-founder of the educational-blockchain startup Tessr
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The best game controller buttons of all time
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SpaceX and Boeing still need a parachute that always works
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Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
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Trans athletes are posting victories and shaking up sports
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In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
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Stealthy Russian hacker group resurfaces with clever new tricks
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Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests
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Stories of twenty-five people who are racing to save us
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