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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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Uber and Lyft Drivers Must Now Set Their Own Mask Rules
As pandemic safety measures have lifted in the US, ride-hailing drivers risk deactivation for imposing their own mask rules. Nearly…
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Shanghai Is Rewriting Chinese Censorship Amid Lockdown
After the “Voices of April” video was blocked, users re-uploaded it in ways they hoped would evade the censors’ detection.…
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Shanghai’s Plan to Reboot the Tech Supply Chain Will Be Hard
Fiona Yu, a partner at the Chinese investment firm Northern Light Venture Capital, who also lives in Shanghai, says the…
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As Covid Restrictions End, Offices Have a Sick-Pay Problem
Alex Collinson, an analysis and research officer at the UK’s Trades Union Congress (TUC), points out that the reintroduction of…
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The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn’t Quite Happen
Last October a local couple from the small midwestern city of Greensburg, Indiana offered to be people’s grandparents on demand.…
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How to Move Your Shop or Business Online
Many businesses had to reinvent themselves almost overnight because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Business owners had two choices: take action…
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Germany Has Picked a Fight With Telegram
In December, around a dozen anti-lockdown protesters gathered together on a cobbled street in the eastern German town of Grimma.…
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Why Joe Biden’s Free Covid Test Website Wasn’t a Dumpster Fire
They decided that the project should be sited and built at the United States Postal Service, which not only had…
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