Disposable America
A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can.
Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing.
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My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is drawing attention to malicious data thieves and brokers. But every Facebook app—even the dumb, innocent ones—collected users’ personal data without even trying.
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New Mexico’s Sad Bet on Space Exploration
Spaceport America was supposed to bring a thriving space industry to the southern New Mexico desert—but for now it’s a futurist tourist attraction, not an operational harbor to the cosmos.
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The City That Remembers Everything
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
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Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds
"I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up."
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Where Self-Driving Cars Go to Learn
Arizona’s promise to keep the driverless car industry free of regulations has attracted dozens of companies, including Uber, Waymo and Lyft.
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The Coming Software Apocalypse
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.
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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
And the machines are running the asylum.
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Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem
It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again.
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End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers
Donald Trump is fixated on a vision of masculine, blue-collar employment. But the retail sector has long had a far greater impact on American employment – and checkout-line technology is putting it at risk
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A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet: They’re Sleeping
Just a power nap in the timescale of the universe.
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What We Lose When the World Moves On From Email
Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian email thread shows the historical value and irresistible allure of a technology that continues to betray us.
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?
HONG KONG — Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where…
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The Weird Thing About Today's Internet
The world’s biggest tech companies might be bigger than you think.
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
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Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
And they're pushing the rest of us toward a “Potemkin internet,” a mere shell of the web we know today.
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Peter Thiel, Trump Adviser, Has a Backup Country: New Zealand - NYTimes.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Peter Thiel is a billionaire, the biggest Donald J. Trump supporter in Trump-hating Silicon Valley and, above all, someone who prides himself on…
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Inside LAX's New Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Unit
If the airport’s experimental team succeeds, every critical infrastructure site in the world might soon have its own in-house intel operation.
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Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change
A century after its creation, the game is still a perfect balance of skill and chance.
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Why time management is ruining our lives
The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
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Nintendo’s Sad Struggle for Survival
Facing an uncertain future, the company keeps trying to mine its storied past.
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How Tech Companies Disrupted Silicon Valley’s Restaurant Scene
Anthony Strong, right, deconstructing a roasted pig at Pizzeria Delfina in Palo Alto, Calif. Jason Henry for The New York Times PALO ALTO, Calif. — It wasn’t so…
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They Promised Us Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
Astro Teller, “captain of moonshots” at Google’s X research lab in Mountain View, Calif. Projects at the Alphabet-owned division have included efforts to change…
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In Silicon Valley Suburbs, Calls to Limit the Soaring Rents
Bay Area towns that tech made rich as considering rent control, an urban tactic, to save a middle class squeezed by years of punishing rent increases.
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Silicon Valley Looks to Artificial Intelligence for the Next Big Thing - NYTimes.com
Tech’s new architecture melds large computing clouds and artificial intelligence to create efficient computing resources and data-based businesses.
