How VAR Could Have Affected The Most Controversial Calls In World Cup History
New Yorker staffers Anakwa Dwamena and Murat Oztaskin guess which famous plays would have gone the other way if the video-assistant referee had been in existence at the time.

June 27, 2018 at 07:32PM
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We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is In The Air
Smartphones were once the best thing to happen to the tech industry — and for a while, it seemed, to all of us, too.

June 27, 2018 at 01:58PM
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The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be
I’ve found a machine that not only matches Apple’s standard of hardware quality, but goes far beyond it to demonstrate how a laptop of the future should work.

June 27, 2018 at 01:58PM
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Inside Facebook And Twitter’s Secret Meetings With Trump Aides And Conservative Leaders Who Say Tech Is Biased
Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters — with accusations that the country’s tech giants are censoring right-leaning posts, tweets and news.

June 27, 2018 at 11:42AM
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Google Let Tech Reporters Try To Trip Up Their Human-Sounding AI Assistant — Here’s What They Thought
At its recent I/O event, Google debuted Duplex, a soon-to-debut tool for booking reservations and querying businesses that mimics human conversation over the phone. To demonstrate the tech, Google invited a bunch of writers to pose as restaurant staff and talk to Duplex directly.

June 27, 2018 at 10:34AM
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A Visual Tour Of Dark Mode And Other Major New macOS Mojave Features
Generally, Mojave’s changes paint a picture of a Mac platform that continues to seek a tighter relationship with iOS.

June 27, 2018 at 09:31AM
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We have questions about dual-screen laptops
Usability and engineering issues still need to be resolved.

June 27, 2018 at 09:05AM
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How Prisons Can Use Tech To Slow Their Ever-Revolving Doors
Tech can increase skills, connections and self-confidence — the very things needed for successful re-entry.

June 27, 2018 at 07:55AM
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California Has 48 Hours to Pass This Privacy Bill or Else
Recent headlines have suggested that California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give Californians “unprecedented control over their data.” This is true but that is not the whole story.

June 27, 2018 at 06:44AM
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The Rise of DNA Data Storage
Could DNA as an archival medium be the solution to our information overload?

June 26, 2018 at 11:45PM
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