year in review
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The Race to Fill Crypto’s FTX-Shaped Hole
When crypto exchange FTX collapsed, it left behind a hole in the market. From Backpack to OPNX, faces new and…
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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023
In 2023, the world has felt like it was balanced on a precipice. A United States presidential election looms, with…
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Advice to Startup Founders: Prepare to Fail
Still, overcoming the cold start problem is deceptively difficult. Chen offers the example of Tiny Speck, the gaming company that…
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A Year In, Biden’s China Policy Looks a Lot Like Trump’s
On December 10, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions, including a bar on American investments, on SenseTime, a Chinese artificial…
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This Was the Year When Finance Jumped the Doge
None of that would matter if it all remained confined to the realm of social media. Except the past few…
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The Year Everyone Remembered That Chips Matter
The most important technology of the year was not Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, Jack Dorsey’s blockchain, or Elon Musk’s, err, dancing…
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VCs Lavished Startups With Cash in 2021. Now Comes the Hard Part
In June 2021, Ralf Wenzel founded the grocery delivery startup JOKR to meet the demand of millions of people who…
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A Move for ‘Algorithmic Reparation’ Calls for Racial Justice in AI
Supporters of algorithmic reparation suggest taking lessons from curation professionals such as librarians, who’ve had to consider how to ethically…
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Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere
Since 2018, Delta has worked with CBP to offer international passengers flying from Atlanta the option of checking in and…
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Autonomous Weapons Are Here, but the World Isn’t Ready for Them
This may be remembered as the year when the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic…
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