Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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The lesson that market leaders are failing to learn form Xerox PARC
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Messaging app ToTok has been removed from the Apple and Google app stores following claims the United Arab Emirates government was using it to spy on people
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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The real trouble with Silicon Valley: The toxicity of the web is peanuts compared with Big Tech’s failure to remake the physical world
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Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death
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AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today.
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Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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Tumblr’s first year without porn
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Why do we tolerate Saudi money in tech?
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In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
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It’s time to plan for a future beyond passwords
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Cancel culture" has always existed - for the powerful, at least - now social media has democratized it
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Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru
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Inside Apple’s iPhone software shakeup after buggy iOS 13 debut
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How activists are getting around Iran’s internet blackout
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Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up
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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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Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
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Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
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Airbnb to verify all listings, CEO Brian Chesky says
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Hackers can use lasers to ‘speak’ to your Amazon Echo or Google Home
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Think you’re anonymous online? A third of popular websites are ‘fingerprinting’ you.
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Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
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Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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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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This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
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Stories of twenty-five people who are racing to save us
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The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
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Rwanda's Mara X, Z are the first smartphones made fully in Africa
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TikTok is the latest window into China’s police state
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Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker?
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Samsung Galaxy Fold review: The $2,000 phone of the future is here—please don’t break it
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Facebook to exempt opinion and satire from fact-checking
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems
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Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues
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Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
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A look inside Apple’s A13 Bionic chip and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology
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Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
6 votes