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Why It’s Impossible to Rent a Car Right Now
Peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms are—cliché though it is—exactly like Airbnb for cars. But, unlike Airbnb, which is currently valued at $78.8…
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How Ukraine Is Winning the Propaganda War
It took two months for Ukrainian officials to acknowledge the story was a myth. “The ghost of Kyiv is a…
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Apple Embraces the Ever-Expanding Dashboard Touchscreen
In Daniel McGehee’s informed opinion, it’s simply too late to put the genie back in the bottle. People drive an…
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Coinbase Offered Them Dream Jobs—and Then Took Them Away
On the Thursday before he was supposed to start his new job at Coinbase, Sam Maher got an email with…
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Big Tech Has Become a Creature of the Swamp
Last October, on the day whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before her committee, Senator Amy Klobuchar gave a candid, if depressing,…
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NASA’s Plan to Get Ingenuity Through the Martian Winter
Ingenuity, NASA’s autonomous Mars helicopter, was only meant to complete five flights. But since its history-making first flight in April…
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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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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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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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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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