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The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped

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The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped

Susan Crawford

Climate change is a huge opportunity: Bertrand Piccard on fairytale flights and Earth's future

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Climate change is a huge opportunity: Bertrand Piccard on fairytale flights and Earth's future

James Temperton

How Vine Overlooked the People of Color Who Made It Amazing

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How Vine Overlooked the People of Color Who Made It Amazing

Latoya Peterson

The Bizarre Role Reversal of Apple and Microsoft

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The Bizarre Role Reversal of Apple and Microsoft

Steven Levy

An Email History of the 2001 iPod Launch

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An Email History of the 2001 iPod Launch

Steven Levy

How Meetup Ditched Its Boys Club

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How Meetup Ditched Its Boys Club

Jessi Hempel

What the East Coast Internet Shut Down Really Means

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What the East Coast Internet Shut Down Really Means

Susan Crawford

Last Call for Backchannel’s Breakfast Salon

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Last Call for Backchannel’s Breakfast Salon

Jessi Hempel

Seven Possible Reasons Twitter Is Holding Its Earnings Call at 5 am PST

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Seven Possible Reasons Twitter Is Holding Its Earnings Call at 5 am PST

Jessi Hempel

How to Build a Civil Rights Movement for the Digital Age

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How to Build a Civil Rights Movement for the Digital Age

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Google: Our Assistant Will Trigger the Next Era of AI

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Google: Our Assistant Will Trigger the Next Era of AI

Steven Levy

Remember Second Life? Now it’s being reborn in virtual reality

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Remember Second Life? Now it’s being reborn in virtual reality

Rowland Manthorpe

The News Is Now Literally a Video Game

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The News Is Now Literally a Video Game

Andrew Watts

How Snapchat’s Sponsored Lenses Became a Money-Printing Machine

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How Snapchat’s Sponsored Lenses Became a Money-Printing Machine

Roni Jacobson

How Trumpism Threatens Silicon Valley

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How Trumpism Threatens Silicon Valley

Khan Shoieb

The Tech Media Mogul Who Changed My Life

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The Tech Media Mogul Who Changed My Life

Karen Wickre

How the Web Became Unreadable

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How the Web Became Unreadable

Kevin Marks

Join Backchannel’s Editors and Guest Host Susan Lyne for Breakfast

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Join Backchannel’s Editors and Guest Host Susan Lyne for Breakfast

Jessi Hempel

When Is It OK to Mine Hacked Emails?

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When Is It OK to Mine Hacked Emails?

Steven Levy

Obama’s an Optimist and You Should Be, Too

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Obama’s an Optimist and You Should Be, Too

Jessi Hempel