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Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’

By Miranda Katz
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Apple Goes Part Time on Touch

By Steven Levy
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A Bishop, a Burner, and the Search for the Divine

By Jessi Hempel
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Where’s My Flying Pizza?

By Jeremy Hsu
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How Bots, Twitter, and Hackers Pushed Trump to the Finish Line

By Andrew Zaleski
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I Had One Night to Invent Interstellar Travel

By Stephen Wolfram
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The iPhone Is Bigger Than Donald Trump

By Steven Levy
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I Am Mark Zuckerberg

By Jessi Hempel
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This Election Violates Everything We Thought We Knew About Data

By David Karpf
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When Facebook Cleared Out Thousands of Rooms

By Steven Levy
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Saving America With a Text

By Alexis Sobel Fitts
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This Y Combinator-Backed Company Has a Secret Weapon to Sway Elections

By Alexis Sobel Fitts
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The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Must Be Stopped

By Susan Crawford
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How Vine Overlooked the People of Color Who Made It Amazing

By Latoya Peterson
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The Bizarre Role Reversal of Apple and Microsoft

By Steven Levy
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An Email History of the 2001 iPod Launch

By Steven Levy
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How Meetup Ditched Its Boys Club

By Jessi Hempel
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What the East Coast Internet Shut Down Really Means

By Susan Crawford
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Last Call for Backchannel’s Breakfast Salon

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

By Jessi Hempel
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Google: Our Assistant Will Trigger the Next Era of AI

By Steven Levy
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The News Is Now Literally a Video Game

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

By Roni Jacobson
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How Trumpism Threatens Silicon Valley

By Khan Shoieb
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