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Now You Can Save the Democratic Party for the Low, Low Price of $4.68 a Month

On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Democrats are lost. The Democratic National Committee has not elected a new leader. Bernie Sanders and Hillary...

Slack’s New Threaded Messages Tame Your Meandering Chats

WIRED’s best Slack channel is called #cookiechat. It’s a place to discuss life’s important questions, like “Thin Mints or Samoas,” and to alert fellow...

Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse by Making Chat a Game

Microsoft is buying a deep learning startup based in Montreal, a global hub for deep learning research. But two years ago, this startup wasn’t...

7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain

Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn’t run it. He leaves that...

Tech’s Biggest Showdown Is Unfolding in Your Living Room

Microsoft is joining Google and Amazon in the race for your home. This week, at an event in China, the venerable tech giant trumpeted...

The ‘Uber for X’ Fad Will Pass Because Only Uber Is Uber

“Uber for X” has been the headline of more than four hundred news articles. Thousands of would-be entrepreneurs used the phrase to describe their...

How Simple Software Could Help Prevent Sexual Assault

Bill Cosby has been accused of drugging and raping dozens of women over several decades. Roger Ailes is accused of harassing multiple women as...

Sorry, Donald Trump: Amazon Dominates, But It’s No Monopoly

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump claimed Amazon was a monopoly he would go after for anti-trust violations if elected. Sure, Trump didn’t like...

Zenefits Reboots as Z2. But It Might Not Be Enough

The fall of Zenefits was swift. In mid-November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the human resources startup had fallen behind on its revenue...

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