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How Drivers Are Finally Outfoxing Uber

By Miranda Katz
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What Deep Blue Tells Us About AI in 2017

By Steven Levy
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How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars

By Ben Hersh
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Human Resources Isn’t About Humans

By Karen Wickre
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The Language that Stole Android Developers’ Hearts

By Sandra Upson
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Crowdfunding Platforms Crack Down on Risky Campaigns

By Mark Harris
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Inside Google’s Slow-Mo Virtual Reality Moonshot

By Steven Levy
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A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View

By Stephen Wolfram
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Magic Leap Could Be Looking at an $8 Billion Valuation

By Jessi Hempel
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The Shattering Truth of 3D-Printed Clothing

By Roni Jacobson
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Airlines Are Letting Old Technology Abuse Their Customers

By Lisa A. Goldstein
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How One Little Cable Company Exposed Telecom’s Achilles’ Heel

By Susan Crawford
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“We Will Literally Predict Their Life Outcomes”

By Vauhini Vara
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Has Uber Killed Off Its Self-Driving Trucks?

By Mark Harris
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The Downside of Policing Violent Videos

By Steven Levy
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This Computer Language Is Feeding Hacker Values Into Young Minds

By Steven Levy
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Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from “Guys With Hoodies”

By Jessi Hempel
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Thousands of Veterans Want to Learn to Code — But Can’t

By Andrew Zaleski
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Sebastian Thrun Defends the Promise of Flying Cars

By Steven Levy
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These DNA Diet Apps Want to Rule Your Health

By Alexandra Ossola
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TED’s News Feed Is a Lot Different Than Facebook’s

By Steven Levy
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The Echo Look is Amazon’s Trojan Horse

By Jessi Hempel
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Ajit Pai Is Siding With the Oligarchy — and Misleading Trump’s Base

By Susan Crawford
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Jack Dorsey on Donald Trump

By Steven Levy
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