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Social Media CEOs Can’t Defend Their Business Model
Anyone who has been paying any attention at all knows that big social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube…
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Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
As smartphone apps track our every move, a group of technologists in the US and UK this week offered guidelines…
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What Will It Take to Get a Cargo Ship Unstuck From the Suez?
Every day, some 50 ships pass through the Suez Canal, the waterway slashed between the Mediteranean and the Red Sea.…
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Intel Wants to Revive US Chipmaking—but It Has to Catch Up First
Intel’s plans, announced Tuesday, to spend $20 billion to build new chip-making factories aimed to show that the company, and…
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Help! What if My New Job Sucks Too?
Dear OOO, My job is awful and is crushing my soul. For insurance reasons, though, I can’t quit until I…
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After a Remote Year, Tech’s Shadow Workforce Barely Hangs On
“The pay could end tomorrow,” says Delgado. “You always have a feeling inside of, ‘What’s going to happen? What’s going…
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Announcing the WIRED Resilience Residency
Between a pandemic, climate change, and advances in technology that continue to reshape almost every way of life, the past…
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This Group Wants to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
When the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google testify later this week at a House hearing, a number of familiar…
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AI Could Enable ‘Swarm Warfare’ for Tomorrow’s Fighter Jets
But Missy Cummings, a professor at Duke University and former fighter pilot who studies automated systems, says the speed at…
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Where Are Those Shoes You Ordered? Check the Ocean Floor
Since the end of November, this is some of what has sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean: vacuum…
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