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Would You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?
You see the future, right? You want to have a kid, so you go enroll in a network state with…
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Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful ‘Mafia,’ Gets a New Boss
The power of Y Combinator has always been its network. The legendary Silicon Valley startup accelerator is known for smelting…
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‘Date Me’ Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love
Olsson didn’t really promote her Date Me doc, but Chana Messinger, a teacher and blogger, tweeted it out in March…
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GM’s Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash
Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said today that the General Motors subsidiary had recalled software deployed on 80…
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Twitter Finally Gets an Edit Button
Another issue that naysayers are likely to have with Twitter’s edit feature as currently designed is that it hides the…
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Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
Picking her new name led Tess Tanenbaum to ponder many questions. Am I Josie or a Hanna? Should it sound…
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Behind Google Worker Protests of an Israeli Government Cloud Deal
Ariel Koren, a Google employee who became a face of worker protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government,…
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A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
Unions have also disputed how railroads have used new  congressionally-mandated automated emergency braking systems to justify plans to remove conductors…
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GM President Mark Reuss on the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast.…
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Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid. The Plain View In…
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