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Can You Rape a Robot?

By Steven Levy
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The Phone Company and the Feds — a Buddy Movie from Hell

By Susan Crawford
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I’ve Spent A Lifetime Building a Mighty Network. Here Are My Secrets.

By Karen Wickre
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Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax

By Susan Crawford
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The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code

By Scott Rosenberg
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The End of the Internet Dream?

By Jennifer Stisa Granick
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How South Korea Squanders Its Fiber Advantage By Run-Amok Rote Learning

By Susan Crawford
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Why the US Secretary of Labor Doesn’t Uber

By Lauren Smiley
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Google By the Letters

By Steven Levy
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Buried in the Wordplay: Life Sciences Graduates From Google X

By Steven Levy
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Why Can’t Our Cities Be More Like Video Games?

By Susan Crawford
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Everything You Know About the Internet of Things is Wrong

By Angus Hervey
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Yes, We Will Live With Artificial Intelligence. But It Will Be Friend, Not Foe.

By Boris Sofman
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Backchannel Goes to Washington

By Steven Levy
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The Tiny Team Taking on a Massive Reform of Government IT

By Steven Levy
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A Government Techie’s Promise on Improving the Immigration User Experience: Yes, We’re Serious

By vivian graubard
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The White House’s Alpha Geeks

By Steven Levy
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It Takes a Network to Make a Review

By Steven Levy
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Why Can’t We Be Like South Korea?

By Susan Crawford
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How a Single Prediction Changed the Future of Computing

By Intel
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The Heroin Heroine of Reddit

By Andrew McMillen
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Our Highest Selves?

By David Pescovitz
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See Ya Later, Capitalism — the Collaborative Economy Is Taking Over

By Robin Chase
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The Biggest Tech Problems So Obvious We Aren’t Fixing Them

By Scott Rosenberg
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