Apple Is Finally Killing iTunes
Farewell to a clunky but world-shattering icon.

May 31, 2019 at 03:51PM
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The Collapsing Crime Rates Of The ’90s Might Have Been Driven By Cellphones
Did technology disrupt the drug game, too?

May 31, 2019 at 02:48PM
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How Qualcomm Shook Down The Cell Phone Industry For Almost 20 Years
For much of the last 20 years, Qualcomm has enjoyed a lead — and in some cases a stranglehold — on chips that support major cellular standards.

May 31, 2019 at 01:32PM
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The new Mac Pro is Apple’s chance to make a PC
Apple’s professional users need upgrades.

May 31, 2019 at 09:30AM
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Sorry, FCC — Killing Net Neutrality Probably Didn’t Expand Internet Access
FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.

May 31, 2019 at 06:32AM
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The World That The Sony Walkman Built
Forty years ago, the Walkman introduced the fall-away feeling of putting on headphones wherever you were. Now our phones serve as escape and something to escape from.

May 30, 2019 at 08:09AM
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I’m A Former Elite Athlete And I Call BS On Tech’s Obsession With Working Long Hours
As a champion gymnast, I trained 22 hours a week. Now, as a startup founder, I see how dangerous ‘hustle culture’ can be.

May 30, 2019 at 07:02AM
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DIY Facial Recognition for Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster
Someone is making dubious claims to have built a program for detecting faces in porn and cross-referencing against social media, with 100,000 identified so far.

May 29, 2019 at 05:59PM
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Ill At Ease
The app-enabled economy sells a fantasy of frictionlessness at a human cost.

May 29, 2019 at 04:00PM
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It’s The Middle Of The Night. Do You Know Who Your iPhone Is Talking To?
Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.

May 29, 2019 at 10:32AM
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