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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace,…
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Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those…
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The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from…
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Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next
Remote work. Competitive salaries. A streamlined hiring process. They’re all perks being offered to prospective tech workers from an unlikely…
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Why the World Fell for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
Back in April I paid $12 to “attend” a virtual event with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Around 45 other…
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Max Levchin’s War on Credit Cards
Photograph: Karen Santos Max Levchin isn’t anti-credit, he really wants you to know. He’s anti-credit card. There’s a big difference. He…
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Apple Won’t Let Staff Work Remotely to Escape Texas Abortion Limits
Rebecca was getting ready to start her work day at Apple this June when she heard that the US Supreme…
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Good Luck Getting Elon Musk to Stop Tweeting
Why do it? When I wrote about Musk’s tweeting earlier this year, I leaned toward the idea that Twitter itself…
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Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
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Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand
“You have two diverging paths for tech workers,” says Pollak. “One group is taking a flight-to-safety approach and going to…
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