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What Twitter’s Move to Shutter Offices Signals for Big Tech
Twitter executives can currently travel the world by globe-trotting among the company’s 38 offices, from San Francisco, Sydney, and Seoul…
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The Rise and Fall of a Bitcoin Mining Sensation
It was 8:45 in the morning of June 13 when Bill Stewart, the CEO of Maine-based bitcoin mining business Dynamics…
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Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments
In 2005, the Irish Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued a landowner for compensation in 1997…
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How Siestas Might Help Europe Survive Deadly Heat Waves
For years, there have been concerns in Spain that this is not the best way to do business. In 2016,…
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Kenya’s Threat to Ban Facebook Could Backfire
In June, Global Witness and Foxglove found that Meta continued to approve ads in Amharic targeting Ethiopian users that included…
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Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
Not all of Just Eat’s orange-clad couriers were switched to salaried contracts, and the company did continue to use self-employed…
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Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
When record temperatures wracked the UK in late July, Google Cloud’s data centers in London went offline for a day,…
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Big Tech Can’t Stop Obsessing Over Apple and TikTok
Every three months, Wall Street watches with anticipation for bumper results from Big Tech companies. Over the course of a…
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Instagram Proves When You’ve Lost the Kardashians, You’re Screwed
Hello, friends. My name is Kate Knibbs, and I’m a senior writer at WIRED covering culture and media. I’ll be…
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Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside.…
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