Emotional baggage—Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment
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Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it
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The bot scare
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Sort by controversial
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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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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We only hire the trendiest
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The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
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Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
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How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all
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Dumbass Home 2.0: Home automation without bullshit
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The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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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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An investigation into the theft and sale of over $50 million worth of African IP address blocks by an insider
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
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There’s no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence
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Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish
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Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance
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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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Oil is the new data
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Behind the Smiles - Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed
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Good challenges vs. bad challenges
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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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A new funding model for open source software
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What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
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The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won
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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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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
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Google Pixel 4 and 4XL review: More than the sum of its sensors
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Stories of twenty-five people who are racing to save us
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The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
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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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Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Developer of Checkm8 explains why the unpatchable iOS jailbreak exploit is a game changer
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Four years in startups - Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns
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Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
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Raising prices is hard
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The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
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Face recognition, bad people and bad data
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The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
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Inside America’s dysfunctional trillion-dollar fighter-jet program
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Forty rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
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Wirecutter has selected TunnelBear and Mullvad as the best current VPN services, and written extensively about how they made this decision
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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