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Boom’s Supersonic Mission to Not Go Bust
Onboard my first plane in well over a year, since the start of the pandemic, I settle into seat 20F…
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Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
Mitchell came from a Black family with an entrepreneurial spirit. When he was a teenager growing up in New Haven,…
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Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy
Later that week, in a video now viewed tens of thousands of times, Jada Brooke fanned the flames. She’d spoken…
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Artificial Intelligence and the ‘Gods Behind the Masks’
“Why don’t you go join them?” asked Ozioma. Showing up behind Amaka on the balcony, the landlady lit an English-brand…
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a…
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Inside Silicon Valley’s Mayo Marketing Madness
In 2013, the San Francisco–based startup Hampton Creek, today known as Eat Just, launched its first product—an eggless, plant-based mayo.…
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Freedom, Mayhem, and the Uncertain Future of Revel’s Mopeds
People went wild for its shared rides. Then came trouble. Now the startup is hellbent to prove it can be…
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Everything You’ve Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong
These hallowed 26 words shield internet companies from being held responsible for what people post and share. But the web’s…
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I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
“I think it’s an even stronger statement than that,” Seyal said. “If we solve the problem you describe, the user…
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When the Boss of All Dating Apps Met the Pandemic
On March 1, 2020—11 days before the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, and the scope of human…
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