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Chris Stokel-Walker

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Bookshop.org is launching e-books to help local bookstores compete with Amazon’s Kindle

28.01.2025 10

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The Supreme Court’s decision on TikTok may have just turned a generation off politics

The Supreme Court’s decision on TikTok may have just turned a generation off politics
17.01.2025 2

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Makers of autonomous vehicles want to change the world—but first they want to change regulations

17.01.2025 10

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Americans are using the Chinese Red Note app to express their frustration with the TikTok ban

Americans are using the Chinese Red Note app to express their frustration with the TikTok ban
15.01.2025 10

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Joe Biden’s new chip export rules strangle competition to ensure U.S. AI supremacy

Joe Biden’s new chip export rules strangle competition to ensure U.S. AI supremacy
13.01.2025 4

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What does Meta’s Oversight Board even do?

10.01.2025 5

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Is Mark Zuckerberg becoming a mini-Elon Musk?

On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta—the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—will be forswearing its traditional approach...

07.01.2025 1

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The European political establishment has had enough of Elon Musk

Elon Musk has never been shy about sharing his opinions to his 211 million followers on X. But for those who follow him—and those who get his posts...

06.01.2025 7

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People who visit adult or gambling websites double their risk of malware

Visiting adult and gambling websites doubles the risk of inadvertently installing malware onto work devices, according to a new study. Fabio...

27.12.2024 9

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Why social media influencers are going to have a very big 2025

As 2024 rolls into 2025, big changes are potentially afoot in the world of social media. TikTok is potentially weeks away from closure in the...

26.12.2024 30

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We used Google’s AI to analyze 188 predictions of what’s in store for tech in 2025

At this time of year investment banks, advertising agencies, and seemingly every other business on the planet share their predictions on what is...

23.12.2024 4

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‘It pivoted into oblivion’: BuzzFeed sold off the company behind ‘Hot Ones’ to pay down its debt

A decade ago, BuzzFeed was redefining what news and entertainment on the web meant. The website’s mix of hard-hitting news, in-depth features, and...

19.12.2024 5

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The latest twist in the embarrassing WordPress saga involves pineapple pizza

The drama at WordPress has taken a number of twists and turns in the months since Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of for-profit WordPress host...

18.12.2024 10

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YouTube is taking over TV

YouTube was launched in February 2005 and soon adopted a simple motto: “Broadcast Yourself.” While we initially watched on PCs, and then...

13.12.2024 5

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Trump’s pick of David Sacks as AI and crypto czar shows how cozy his White House will be with Silicon Valley

President-elect Donald Trump’s approach to crypto is becoming clearer with the appointment of entrepreneur David Sacks as Trump’s “White House...

12.12.2024 3

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TikTok has a climate change denialism problem, a new report finds (exclusive)

World leaders gathered last month at COP29 in Azerbaijan to discuss how best to tackle climate change. But on TikTok, climate change misinformation...

06.12.2024 2

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Donald Trump is reportedly set to pick the crypto enthusiast Paul Atkins to lead the SEC

04.12.2024 10

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This tiny design tweak made YouTube a more palatable place for women creators

26.11.2024 10

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ChatGPT was tasked with designing a website. The result was as manipulative as you’d expect

25.11.2024 5

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People are using Strava to create amazing street art

22.11.2024 3

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Will the DOJ’s proposal to break up Google survive the incoming administration?

22.11.2024 4

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The Baltic undersea cable cutting highlights the internet’s underlying vulnerabilities

20.11.2024 1

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Scammers are making thousands of dollars through blockchain typosquatting

20.11.2024 1

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How does Elon Musk define ‘efficiency’? We asked his former employees

18.11.2024 8

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People are panic buying Plan B after Trump’s win—and Amazon sellers are raising the pills’ price

15.11.2024 10

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How long will Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s lovefest last?

13.11.2024 6

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Did Elon Musk’s X help Trump win the election?

06.11.2024 2

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What Donald Trump’s election win means for Silicon Valley

06.11.2024 4

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The U.K.’s Royal Mail plans to save Christmas deliveries with 2.5 million IoT Pixels

30.10.2024 2

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Elon Musk is bringing Silicon Valley’s ‘ask for forgiveness, not permission’ playbook to politics

25.10.2024 3

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You’re going to have a robot coworker sooner than you think

22.10.2024 10

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.AI domain names are the next big thing on the internet. That’s great news for Anguilla

18.10.2024 3

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Elon Musk is becoming a liability for his own businesses

14.10.2024 5

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The big question mark at the center of Tesla’s self-driving Robotaxi

09.10.2024 2

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7 key takeaways from MrBeast’s leaked HR document

19.09.2024 30

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Apple’s latest iPhone announcement signals the start of a two-track future

09.09.2024 2

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A MySpace clone set up by a German teen just crossed one million users

05.09.2024 2

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E-commerce sales are soaring. So is corrugated box usage

22.08.2024 8

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Spotify is full of AI music, and some say it’s ruining the platform

09.08.2024 6

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A look back at Kamala Harris’s yearslong crusade against online sex work

08.08.2024 3

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Telegram is at the center of the far-right riots in the U.K.

06.08.2024 10

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Why Zillow Gone Wild is being sued for alleged copyright infringement

05.08.2024 10

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AI models lean left when it comes to politically charged questions

01.08.2024 2

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AI-written obituaries are compounding people’s grief

26.07.2024 20

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CrowdStrike could have a European-size data problem on its hands

23.07.2024 10

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