Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi Tries Giving ‘The D’ to Coworkers
Fortunately we’re not talking about any sort of sexual impropriety (to the best of our knowledge). The memo, obtained by Business Insider, outlines a method to avoid bureaucratic bloat.

June 6, 2018 at 01:00AM
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Taxi Driver Suicides Are a Warning
Technology has pushed a vulnerable, largely immigrant, population into an economically precarious situation — even as its prospects of upward mobility dwindle.

June 5, 2018 at 04:55PM
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This Dizzyingly Cool Lego Contraption Reads Out The Lyrics To ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’
This was shot with a GoPro controlled by Mindstorms, Lego’s hardware-software platform for programmable robots.

June 5, 2018 at 01:41PM
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The odd reality of life under China’s all-seeing credit score system
Looking for love? In China, a good credit score could get you access to exclusive singles

June 5, 2018 at 01:37PM
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The erosion of Web 2.0
As we move out of the era of UGC and Web 2.0 we will see the old ways cast aside, the old models broken, and the old invasions of privacy inverted.

June 5, 2018 at 01:36PM
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How The Truman Show Predicted the Future
Two decades since Jim Carrey’s dramatic turn playing the oblivious main character in a reality show fabricated around his life, “The Truman Show” continues to act as a digital-age Nostradamus.

June 5, 2018 at 10:13AM
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I’m Addicted To Old Console Games, And It’s All My iPhone’s Fault
Years after leaving the PlayStation behind, I’ve found my way back into video games — or maybe they’ve found their way back to me.

June 5, 2018 at 09:16AM
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SpaceX Pumps the Brakes on Its Plan to Send Tourists Around the Moon
In a move that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, SpaceX is postponing its plan to send a pair of private citizens on a trip around the Moon.

June 5, 2018 at 07:00AM
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Apple Requested ‘Zero’ Personal Data In Deals With Facebook, CEO Tim Cook Says
“We weren’t in the data business. We’ve never been in the data business,” the Apple CEO said.

June 5, 2018 at 03:00AM
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How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet’s Biggest Commenting Platform
The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn’t allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.

June 4, 2018 at 03:43PM
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