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Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine
Ever since Russian forces started their all-out invasion in February, Ukraine has been hailed as an exemplar of how to…
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Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine
Ever since Russian forces started their all-out invasion in February, Ukraine has been hailed as an exemplar of how to…
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The Web3 Movement’s Quest to Build a ‘Can’t Be Evil’ Internet
Owocki was something of a rock star at the conference. He is credited with coining the term BUIDL in 2017.…
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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise
I had come to watch Kelly film a haul. She skipped off to the living room to dance around—a warm-up—then…
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Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?
Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO…
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It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws
Code pours from Feross Aboukhadijeh’s fingers. As a devotee of the open source software movement, he has written immensely popular…
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‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy
The media descended on the story the next day. Right away, experts were quoted lambasting Arizona’s lax regulatory environment, calling…
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How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
Since January 6, 2021, meanwhile, the app’s position among the Trump movement has continued to consolidate. Channels owned by far-right…
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What Happens When an AI Knows How You Feel?
In May 2021, Twitter, a platform notorious for abuse and hot-headedness, rolled out a “prompts” feature that suggests users think…
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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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