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Synthetic Voices Want to Take Over Audiobooks
When voice actor Heath Miller sits down in his boatshed-turned-home studio in Maine to record a new audiobook narration, he…
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Latino Founders Have a Hard Time Raising Money From VCs
A few years ago, RocÃo van Nierop visited the tech accelerator Y Combinator. Nierop is the cofounder and executive director…
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Gibraltar Could Launch the World’s First Crypto Stock Exchange
British entrepreneur and financier Richard O’Dell Poulden hopes that his new venture will relieve the plight of an underserved cohort:…
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The EU Has a Plan to Fix Internet Privacy: Be More Like Apple
Like millions of other internet users in Europe, when Alexandra Geese, a German member of the European Parliament (MEP), wants…
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Everyone Wants to Be an Entrepreneur
Applications for new businesses rose 20 percent last year, after languishing for a decade. Many newly minted founders attribute it…
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Wait, So Where Will Urbanites Charge Their EVs?
So you’ve got a nice house with a garage where you can charge your electric vehicle—you’re living in the future.…
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Meta and Twitter’s NFT Landgrab Could Backfire
“Despite the positivity around NFT use cases, there’s a lot of distrust in the community—perhaps due to the anonymity of…
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Guts, Not Guidelines, Will Stop Tech Mergers
Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the…
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The US Refuses to Fall in Love With Electric Cars
The Environmental Protection Agency’s revised greenhouse gas emission rules for passenger vehicles, finalized in December 2021, simply returned the standards…
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Why Big Tech Companies Have Been Quiet on Texas’ Abortion Law
Most companies that signed the letters were midsize tech and consumer brands trying to attract younger customers and workers, says…
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