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Reid Hoffman Plays His Trump Card

By Jessi Hempel

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Venturing out on a limb: the story behind the Rothenberg story

By Jessi Hempel

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Mike Rothenberg’s VC firm was young, splashy, and loaded with cash. Now it’s all come crashing down

By Lauren Smiley and Jessi Hempel

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The Internet’s Own Instigator

By Steven Levy

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Mark Zuckerberg Was Always Mark Zuckerberg

By The Backchannel Team

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Apple Pay Needs to Prove It’s Actually Better Than a Physical Wallet

By April Glaser

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

By Stephen Wolfram

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Everyone Hated News Feed. Then It Became Facebook’s Most Important Product

By Jessi Hempel

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There’s Only One Way to Compete with Uber

By Miranda Katz

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A Humble Story from YC Demo Day

By Sandra Upson

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Blame Your Lousy Internet on Poles

By Susan Crawford

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A Company You’ve Never Heard of May Have Solved the Password Mess

By Scott Rosenberg

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How Hillary Clinton Adopted the Wonkiest Tech Policy Ever

By Steven Levy

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Twitch Could Be a $20 Billion Company Inside Amazon

By Jeremy Hsu

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Will Machine Learning Outperform Human Curation in Apple Music?

By Steven Levy

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An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple

By Steven Levy

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Div Turakhia Just Became A Billionaire

By Jessi Hempel

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BACKCHANNEL: On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. So how can they tell if you’re depressed?

By Jessi Hempel

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What Happened to WikiLeaks?

By Sandra Upson

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When Life Is A Product Hunt

By Carl Steadman

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Wikipedia Is Not Therapy!

By Andrew McMillen

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Chilling Courtside at The VR Olympics

By Sandra Upson

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Alphabet Learns That Change Isn’t as Easy as ABC

By Steven Levy

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The Next Generation of Wireless — “5G” — Is All Hype.

By Susan Crawford