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The College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't

By Lauren Smiley
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The First First Impression of the iPhone X

By Steven Levy
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The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers

By Michael Antonoff
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Why AI Is Still Waiting For Its Ethics Transplant

By Scott Rosenberg
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The DC Hearings are Big Tech's Big Chance to Change—Again

By Steven Levy
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The Woman Taking On Russia's Trolling Machine

By Yulia James and Sophia Jones
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When Government Fails, Social Media Is the New 911

By Maya Averbuch
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San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia

By Susan Crawford
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The Scientist Who Cracked Biological Mysteries With Math

By Stephen Wolfram
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Burning Memories: Rethinking Digital Archives Amid Loss

By Scott Rosenberg
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Inside the Weird World of Social Media Marathon Cheating

By Mary Pilon
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The Case Against the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger

By Susan Crawford
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Tesla's Secret Second Floor

By Greg Reichow
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This Techie Is Using Blockchain to Monetize His Time

By Scott Rosenberg
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The Problem with #MeToo and Viral Outrage

By Jessi Hempel
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Your Next Gig: Map the Streets For Self-Driving Cars

By Steven Levy
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The Crusaders Keeping Killers’ Names Offline

By Alexis Sobel Fitts
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Google Bombs Are Our New Normal

By Karen Wickre
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Voice Assistants Aren't So Easy to Fire

By Scott Rosenberg
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Inside Evan Spiegel's Quest to Map Snap's Future

By Jessi Hempel
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The Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money

By Andrew McMillen
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How to Build a Self-Conscious Machine

By Hugh Howey
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Algorithms Have Already Gone Rogue

By Steven Levy
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Comcast Is Abandoning Customers in the Name of Free Speech

By Susan Crawford
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