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Elon Musk’s Need for Speed Puts Twitter in Peril
Hi, everyone. Life is good because the Phillies are in the World Series! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just…
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Russia Is Ramping Up Nuclear War Propaganda
For months, pro-Kremlin media has struck a bellicose tone, proposing that President Vladimir Putin take the extraordinary step of launching…
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Fintech in Latin America and Africa Is Breaking the Mold
This rings true for a country like Brazil. In 2019 the Central Bank of Brazil created Pix, an instant payment…
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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of Wasington, DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29…
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Twitter Had a Plan to Fix Social Media. Will Elon Musk Follow It?
Musk’s chief concern will be whether he can align his philosophical affection for decentralization with the need to turn Twitter…
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The Strange Death of the Uyghur Internet
Making a living as a programmer also became hard, says a former Bilkan developer, who asked to remain anonymous out…
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Cannabis Banking Startups Want to Make It Easy to Buy Weed
Physical safety is also a concern that fintech startups are trying to address. The more banks that go online and…
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Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash?
 PTO Genius, another startup launched in 2020, nudges employees that its algorithm guesses are at risk for burnout—based on factors…
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When Your Neighbor Turns You In
There’s a knock at the door. Local authorities have received a tip that you’ve broken the moral code—a new set…
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Mathieu Flamini Has a Plan to Decarbonize the Chemical Industry
In 2008, the soccer player Mathieu Flamini moved from Arsenal, where he’d spent four years as a tough but classy…
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