Meet The New Urban Menace: The State Of The E-Scooter
Just as major cities were beginning to understand and cope with all the changes introduced by ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft, a new and much more obnoxious transit trend hit the streets.

June 3, 2018 at 12:00PM
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It’s too easy to trick your Echo into spying on you
We’re all just beta testers.

June 3, 2018 at 10:59AM
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Google Is Actually Pretty Good at Identifying What People Are Wearing
We tested out Google Lens, which lets you shop via image recognition.

June 3, 2018 at 08:50AM
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The agony of Sophia, the world’s first robot citizen condemned to a lifeless career in marketing
Sophia the robot was given the gift of legal personhood. Her reward? An eternity working in marketing.

June 2, 2018 at 11:50AM
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Don’t Use Software to Spy on Your Spouse
Reason’s “To Spy on a Cheating Spouse” explains a practice that harms thousands of women who are surveilled by their partners.

June 2, 2018 at 08:08AM
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Porn’s Uncanny Valley
The San Fernando Valley was once the bedroom community of the adult industry. Now technology hopes to disrupt traditional pornography — and the city it calls home.

June 2, 2018 at 04:39AM
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Apple’s biggest event of the year is looking unusually quiet
Instead of announcing new features at WWDC 2018, Apple may double down on being the privacy-first, user-focused alternative to its competition.

June 1, 2018 at 02:20PM
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Ocean Cables Connecting The World’s Internet Find Their Terminus In… A Beach House?
Motherboard travels to Denmark to learn more about data transporting submarine cables that are crucial to the modern world.

June 1, 2018 at 12:23PM
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Facebook will remove the Trending topics section next week
The removal comes after years of criticism.

June 1, 2018 at 12:16PM
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The Death of a Gig Worker
An SUV killed Pablo Avendano as he picked up jobs for the food-delivering app Caviar. Who is responsible?

June 1, 2018 at 11:08AM
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