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Trump Squeezed America’s Geek Squad. Biden Built It Back Stronger
Mina Hsiang returned to the United States Digital Service, the US government’s rapid digital fix-it squad, on January 26, 2021,…
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To Save Downtowns, Destroy Them
Remote work revealed that core areas of San Francisco and other cities are overreliant on offices. It’s time to reimagine…
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Noah Raford Can Help You Prepare for a Not-So-Nice Future
Archival audioclip (Back to the Future): I’m from the future. Lauren Goode: Alright, I’m gonna ask the question that everyone’s wondering about: What…
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Covid Exposure Apps Are Headed for a Mass Extinction Event
Within weeks of Covid-19 shutting down the world in 2020, teams at archrivals Apple and Google partnered on a rare joint project.…
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I’m Reddit’s CEO and Think Regulating Social Media Is Tyranny. AITA?
For the first 20 minutes of our conversation, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, the sixth most-visited website in the US,…
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Tech Layoffs Reveal America’s Unhealthy Obsession With Work
It’s so nice that everything’s back to normal at the office now, isn’t it? If “normal” means mass layoffs, empty office…
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Welcome to the Comfy Office of the Future
Despite the enduring popularity of remote and hybrid work, many corporations have embraced plans for new office headquarters, campuses, and buildings,…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room…
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Is It Possible to Beat a Virus That Moves Faster Than Science?
Thank you to everyone who wrote in last month to confirm that, indeed, only journalists care what happens to Twitter.…
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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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