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Google DeepMind’s Untrendy Play to Make the Blockchain Actually Useful

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For Silicon Valley, the headline was sweet nectar: Google DeepMind, the world’s hottest artificial intelligence lab, embraces the blockchain, the endlessly fascinating idea at...

A Portable Panic Button for Immigrants Swept Up in Raids

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After the election, Natalia Margolis felt helpless. Like the overwhelming majority of her fellow San Franciscans, Margolis had vehemently opposed Donald Trump’s candidacy. His...

Hey, Coastal Elites: Don’t Dis ‘Flyover Country’—Fund It

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Here’s a math problem: Ten startup founders and CEOs hurtle down the long highway from Omaha to Lincoln, Nebraska, in a cornflower blue bus....

Travis Kalanick Doesn’t Need a New COO. He Needs a New CEO

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Have you heard? Uber is hiring. CEO Travis Kalanick wants a chief operating officer. He apparently came to this decision in the midst of the...

Microsoft and Intel’s Decades-Long Alliance Has Started To Fray

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They called it Wintel. For decades, two companies worked side by side to build the very foundation of personal computing. Microsoft built the...

FCC Chair on Trump’s War on the Press: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Media outlets critical of President Trump are used to being called “fake news.” But they have good reason to worry that the president will...

The CIA Leak Exposes Tech’s Vulnerable Future

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Yesterday’s Wikileaks dump reiterated something we already knew: Our devices are fundamentally unsafe. No matter what kind of encryption we use, no matter which...

Google Street View’s Window into How Americans Vote (Look at the Cars)

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Led by Fei-Fei Li, the director of the Stanford University artificial intelligence lab and a newly minted Google employee, a team of academics recently...

No, iPhones Aren’t Luxury Items. They’re Economic Necessities

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To make it in America, you have to hustle. Fast-food worker or CEO, Uber driver or student, you have to stay connected in an...

The Women’s March Defines Protest in the Facebook Age

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A rushing river of protesters flooded downtown Washington, DC, today, pink hats stretching as far as I could see. But it’s the signs that...

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