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He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared
He told the court that he grew his beard down to his clavicle, shaved his head. He said that when…
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Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’
The organizations we recommend offer the best bang for the buck. That often means saving the lives of children under…
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism
The idea of Singer that excited me was that each of us should give a lot of money to help…
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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building…
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Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?
Alyssa Videlock was 11 years old when she started searching for people like her on the internet. What she found,…
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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Hall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain…
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There's No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future
Tech companies can’t get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its…
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When My Country Invaded Ukraine, I Faced a Choice: Give Me Propaganda or Give Me Death
A month later, the world saw images of mass graves in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, dead limbs sticking out…
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Kara Swisher Is Sick of Tech People, So She Wrote a Book About Them
In her new memoir, Burn Book, Kara Swisher cites a 2014 profile that dubbed her “Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and…
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The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century
Around us at Zephyros, kids and silverware clamor and motorbikes cough, but Marina’s voice is barely above a whisper. “When…
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