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A Hacker’s Guide to Bending the Universe

By Marcin Wichary
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The Tesla Dividend: Better Internet Access

By Susan Crawford
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Those Entry-Level Startup Jobs? They’re Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks

By Lauren Smiley
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Making Drone Racing the New NASCAR

By Andrew Zaleski
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What Have They Been Smoking at Apple Music?

By Steven Levy
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The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS

By Susan Crawford
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Why the Tech Industry Shuns America’s Gun Problem

By Scott Rosenberg
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Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?

By Steven Levy
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The New Media is Made of Memes

By Logan Hill
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You Didn’t Notice It, But Google Fiber Just Began the Golden Age of High Speed Internet Access

By Susan Crawford
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War Stories: My Journey From Blindness to Building a Fully Conversational User Interface

By Chris Maury
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I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12

By Roni Jacobson
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At Harvey Mudd College, the Ratio of Women in Computer Science Increased from 10% to 40% in 5 Years

By Maria Klawe
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We Are Now At Peak TED

By Steven Levy
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This Isn’t about One iPhone. It’s About Millions of Them.

By Ron Wyden
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The Line Tamers

By Lauren Smiley
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The Secret to Moonshots? Killing Our Projects

By Astro Teller
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The Future of Security: The Bottom Line

By Kevin Poulsen
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Something Was Wrong With Annie’s Baby

By K McGowan
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“I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body”

By K McGowan
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The Man Who Dissected His Own Brain

By K McGowan
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Our Medical Data Must Become Free

By K McGowan
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Missing Minsky, Inking India, and Why We Did a Security Roundtable with Google

By Steven Levy
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War Stories: What It’s Really Like Working on AAA Games at Ubisoft

By Maxime Beaudoin
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