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How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over

By Steven Levy
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Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy

By Steven Levy
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The Radical Politics of the Blockchain

By morgenpeck
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The New King of Toys

By Logan Hill
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Big Cable’s Sledgehammer Is Coming Down

By Susan Crawford
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Lyft vs. Taxi Thunderdome

By Lauren Smiley
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Backchannel On Demand

By Steven Levy
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You, Too, Can Get Married on the Blockchain

By morgenpeck
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Even If Terrorists Do Use Strong Encryption, We Still Need It

By Dan Gillmor
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Arresting Crime Before It Happens

By Susan Crawford
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The Hacking of Hollywood

By David Kushner
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Encryption is not the enemy

By Ron Wyden
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Can Women Build A Better Tinder?

By Alana Hope Levinson
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Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code?

By Lauren Smiley
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Pac-Man’s Siren Call

By Marcin Wichary
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Your Pizza’s Cold? Blame Your Food App — Not Your Courier

By Anna Vignet
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Doing Is Knowing: “Sweet Jane” and the Web

By Scott Rosenberg
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Crossing the Digital Divide on Chicago’s Toughest Streets

By Susan Crawford
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DoorDash Wants to Own the Last Mile

By Steven Levy
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Struggling in Appalachia, He Books the High End Lifestyle for Rich Techies

By Lauren Smiley
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The Auto Industry Won’t Create The Future

By David Pakman
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Why This Audio Map for the Blind Offers an Open-Data Roadmap for the Country

By Susan Crawford
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We live in a WTF Economy. What happens next?

By Steven Levy
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War Stories: A Year and a Half of Instapainting

By Chris Chen
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