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The Tech Media Mogul Who Changed My Life

By Karen Wickre
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How the Web Became Unreadable

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

By Jessi Hempel
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When Is It OK to Mine Hacked Emails?

By Steven Levy
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Obama’s an Optimist and You Should Be, Too

By Jessi Hempel
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This Twenty-Something Forced Silicon Valley to ‘Show Her the Numbers’

By Miranda Katz
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The Physicist Who Sees Crime Networks

By Mark Harris
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Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution

By Stephen Wolfram
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The Venture Capitalist Who Is Both a Man and a Woman

By Jessi Hempel
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Driverless Cars Need Just One Thing: Futuristic Roads

By Brent Skorup
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How Etsy Dodged Destruction at the Hands of Amazon

By Roni Jacobson
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Melinda Gates Asked for Ideas to Help Women in Tech: Here They Are

By Jessi Hempel
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Zuckerberg in Africa

By Steven Levy
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Slow Internet Is Fueling Inequality

By Dan Runcie
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How Startups Crack the Code

By Sandra Upson
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The Bizarre Second Life of the Utopian “Facebook Killer”

By Alexis Sobel Fitts
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Our Cell Phone Alerts Will Be Hacked

By Peter Moskowitz
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Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech

By Jessi Hempel
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You Too Can Become a Machine Learning Rock Star! No PhD Necessary.

By Steven Levy
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Hit the Road, Jack

By Steven Levy
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How Iran Is Building Its Censorship-Friendly Domestic Internet

By Collin Anderson
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When Judges Pull the Plug on Rural America

By Susan Crawford
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Chat Bots Aren’t a Fad. They’re a Revolution.

By Chris Messina
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Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms

By Jeremy Hsu
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