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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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If Musk Starts Firing Twitter’s Security Team, Run
Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion after the least sexy will-they-won’t-they saga of all time. And while Musk…
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Twitter Users Flock to Other Platforms as the Elon Musk Era Begins
A week before Elon Musk closed his $44 billion Twitter deal, Cassie LaBelle, a writer who is part of a…
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Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet
Next week, a law takes effect that will change the internet forever—and make it much more difficult to be a…
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