Facebook’s Workers Are Holding The Company Accountable. Right Now, They’re The Only Ones Who Can
The scandal-ridden social network is unanswerable to regulators, users and investors. For now, only its talent has the power to force change.

December 20, 2018 at 06:07PM
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Tech Is Killing Street Food
The wealthy hubs of the United States and India are embracing informal gastronomy, but not the people who have traditionally provided it.

December 20, 2018 at 05:08PM
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PowerPoint Is The Most Efficient Way For Kids To Manage Their Parents
The most solid method for kids to achieve their goals? An awesome presentation.

December 20, 2018 at 12:22PM
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Four Days, 170,000 People And One Metallica Concert Later, I Figured Out What Salesforce Is
It was only day two, and already the spectacle that is Dreamforce had left me no choice but to eat some weed.

December 20, 2018 at 10:10AM
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Amazon Prime Is Getting Worse, And It’s Making Me Question The Nature Of Reality
Amazon is gaslighting us with the false promise of two-day shipping.

December 19, 2018 at 11:10AM
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I Took A Ride Through Elon Musk’s New Tunnel In California
Will the Boring Company change the future of transportation, or will it just bring us to where we’re already going?

December 19, 2018 at 09:23AM
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Facebook Gave Tech Giants More Intrusive Data Access Than It Disclosed
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules.

December 19, 2018 at 08:44AM
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Smart Speakers And Thermostats Will Monetize Life At Home
As internet-connected devices and appliances accumulate, one academic foresees “the monetization of every move you make.”

December 19, 2018 at 07:58AM
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Spam calls Jumped Over 300% In 2018
Between January and October of this year, Truecaller said, users worldwide received about 17.7 billion spam calls. That’s up from some 5.5 billion spam calls they received last year.

December 18, 2018 at 06:02PM
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How Computers Got Shockingly Good At Recognizing Images
A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images.

December 18, 2018 at 02:51PM
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