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Benjamin Franklin Meets the Blockchain
Hi, everyone. Another grim week. The plain truth is that we have got to stop selling weapons of war to…
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An Autonomous Car Blocked a Fire Truck Responding to an Emergency
On an early April morning, around 4 am, a San Francisco Fire Department truck responding to a fire tried to…
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Who Owns 4chan? | WIRED
By 2016, Nishimura announced that the costs of running 4chan were simply too high and suggested the site’s closure was…
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Microsoft’s Code-Writing AI Points to the Future of Computers
Microsoft just showed how artificial intelligence could find its way into many software applications—by writing code on the fly. At…
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A Warehouse Worker Takes the Fight to Amazon Shareholders
Amazon’s organizing warehouse workers have been rattling the ecommerce giant, winning union elections, and staging walkouts to agitate for better…
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Think Airport Crowding Is Bad Now? Wait ’Til Summer
The appetite to travel again after more than two years of lockdowns and mask mandate debates has yielded one completely…
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Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Aren’t Dead Just Yet
People have forgotten what unregulated markets are like. We’ve had 90 years of the SEC and reasonably regulated, well-behaved stock…
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Texas Cites Clarence Thomas to Defend Its Social Media Law
Florida’s law remains blocked, and the state is keenly interested in the outcome of the Texas battle. Florida on Wednesday…
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The Private Equity Firm That Grounded Paul Allen’s Dream
Hey, everyone. Elon now doesn’t want to buy Twitter because it can’t count its bots. You’d think an AI guy…
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This Is Where Dirty Old Cars Go to Die
With each passing year, emissions from cars keep rising. Global carbon emissions from passenger road vehicles measured 2.5 gigatonnes in…
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