Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues
As teachers launch personal brands and cast themselves as influencers, start-ups and tech giants alike are racing to cultivate them to spread their wares.

September 6, 2017 at 05:00AM
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Some Crypto-Capitalists Just Want to See the World Burn
Tech’s evangelists point to seasteading and cryptocurrency as humanity’s salvation, but are they bringing us closer to armageddon?

September 5, 2017 at 01:52PM
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The Audacious, Complicated Plan to Move a Swedish Mining Town
Kiruna, Sweden, sits on top of the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine.

September 5, 2017 at 08:16AM
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Meet The ‘Wall’ Of Technology Currently Monitoring The US/Mexico Border
In what possible sense could America need a border wall when there are patrolling agents and infrared cameras trained on the border at all times?

September 5, 2017 at 08:09AM
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Forget Wall Street – Silicon Valley is the new political power in Washington
It used to be banks, but now it is tech giants that dominate the US lobbying industry. Can money buy them what they want: less competition, less tax… and more data?

September 4, 2017 at 06:04PM
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Apple Is Ready to Play Politics in Iowa
Apple is bringing a data center and jobs to Iowa as part of its pledge to be a morally responsible company. But critics say the deal is just another example of a powerful corporation exploiting investment-hungry state governments for its own ends.

September 4, 2017 at 12:54PM
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The Silicon Valley execs who don’t eat for days: ‘It’s not dieting, it’s biohacking’
Techies are pushing the trend of intermittent fasting for weight loss – made popular by diets like the 5:2 plan – to the extreme. Are they crazy?

September 4, 2017 at 09:35AM
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Windows is doomed
Microsoft’s mobile mistakes are catching up to its signature product.

September 3, 2017 at 06:56PM
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Now CNN Can Read Its Reporters’ DMs
According to multiple sources, employees were not warned that this change would be made. The sources say that at least six thousand people are in the Turner Slack, which includes all employees of CNN.

September 3, 2017 at 03:42PM
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Is Big Tech Breaking Up With The Left?
Google’s reported involvement in New America’s decision to end an antimonopoly program points to a larger schism in the Democratic Party.

September 3, 2017 at 10:25AM
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