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The Metaverse Land Rush Is an Illusion
In the future, luxury brands may have storefronts in virtual worlds where users can browse their shops as though they’re…
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VCs Lavished Startups With Cash in 2021. Now Comes the Hard Part
In June 2021, Ralf Wenzel founded the grocery delivery startup JOKR to meet the demand of millions of people who…
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A Move for ‘Algorithmic Reparation’ Calls for Racial Justice in AI
Supporters of algorithmic reparation suggest taking lessons from curation professionals such as librarians, who’ve had to consider how to ethically…
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Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere
Since 2018, Delta has worked with CBP to offer international passengers flying from Atlanta the option of checking in and…
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How Y Combinator Changed the World
This month a successful entertainment-business newsletter written by an influential reporter joined forces with publishing legend Janice Min to form…
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‘We Got Memed Into Moving’: Inside Miami’s Tech Boom
Early in the first pandemic summer, around the time California started requiring people to wear masks indoors, Jack Abraham booked…
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Hypebeasts With Bots Have Ruined Christmas
The idea that major retailers need to do more is a sentiment that those who lose out to bots at…
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Boom’s Supersonic Mission to Not Go Bust
Onboard my first plane in well over a year, since the start of the pandemic, I settle into seat 20F…
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More Black and Hispanic Entrepreneurs Are Open for Business
These programs are particularly widespread at community and technical colleges like Hillsborough. Community colleges serve the majority of students from…
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Autonomous Weapons Are Here, but the World Isn’t Ready for Them
This may be remembered as the year when the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic…
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