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The Myth of a Superhuman AI

By Kevin Kelly
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Sheryl Sandberg’s Accidental Revolution

By Jessi Hempel
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We Are Entering the Era of the Brain Machine Interface

By Steven Levy
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Why Apple Is Losing Its Shine in China

By Jeremy Hsu
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How WeChat Spreads Rumors, Reaffirms Bias, and Helped Elect Trump

By Eileen Guo
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The FCC Is Leading Us Toward Catastrophe

By Susan Crawford
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Kimbal Musk’s Tech Revolution Starts with Mustard Greens

By Steven Levy
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Sheryl Sandberg Is Starting a New Movement

By Jessi Hempel
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Internet Censorship Is Advancing Under Trump

By Roni Jacobson
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How Google Book Search Got Lost

By Scott Rosenberg
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Here’s How to Triumph in a Toxic Office

By Karen Wickre
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Pepsi Would Like the World to Buy a Coke

By Jessi Hempel
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These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers

By Miranda Katz
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Why Distribution Still Matters in the Internet Age

By Abhishek Madhavan
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Why Uber Won’t Fire Its CEO

By Jessi Hempel
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Pitch Backchannel: Tech’s Origin Stories

By Alexis Sobel Fitts
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Love in the Time of Cryptography

By Quinn Norton
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The Internet Isn’t the Wild Wild West Anymore. It’s Westworld.

By Steven Levy
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Amazon Is Dead Serious About Delivering Your Goodies by Drone

By Steven Levy
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Why Bargain Travel Sites May No Longer Be Bargains

By Doug Garr
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Handcuffing Cities to Help Telecom Giants

By Susan Crawford
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Obama’s Secretary of Defense Won’t Stop Trying Fix the World

By Jessi Hempel
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Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear

By danah boyd
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The Real Stars of Y Combinator’s Demo Day

By Sandra Upson
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