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Elaine Moore

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Where does Wikipedia go in the age of AI?

Crowdsourced, open edited and free, the site must seize the new technology as an opportunity

24.10.2025 10

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Is $50 a fair price for your data?

Personal information is spilling out of us constantly — but some of it is worth more than the rest

18.09.2025 4

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The perils of vibe coding

AI companies want to prove productivity gains — but there’s a risk we may create software with inbuilt problems

28.08.2025 20

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The book that explains the billionaire doomers

A niche investment text from the 1990s reveals why powerful tech leaders fixate on the apocalypse

24.07.2025 20

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Here come the glassholes, part II

Adding facial recognition to smart glasses may not prove as popular as some in Silicon Valley believe

13.06.2025 10

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A new psychedelic era dawns in America

Magic mushrooms remain illegal in California but you wouldn’t know that from the gatherings in San Francisco

04.06.2025 10

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How one teenager uses AI

Adolescent practice with new technologies can provide a form of divination for adults

15.05.2025 20

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Storage units are the new hemline index

Digital goods will never match the attachment felt for things in the real world

13.04.2025 7

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Grok, o3 and ELMo — there’s a reason AI names are so weird

Incoherent nomenclature is a tradition in the tech sector, where titles are often designed to amuse teams, not users

17.02.2025 8

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Eagles, flags and a thumbs up: what Trump’s White House website tells us

His revamped online presence portrays the president as part action hero, part hard-nosed CEO

23.01.2025 9

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One hundred million fans cannot make you famous

Mass, cross-generational audiences have disappeared and even MrBeast can’t find them

01.01.2025 10

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Year in a word: Slop

AI could build a better future — but not without proliferating spam-like, low-grade content first

26.12.2024 10

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Blame AI for your gruelling job interview

Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

04.12.2024 9

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Man vs machinima: can video games ever be art?

The uncanny semi-reality of computer-generated worlds is producing a new form of filmmaking

02.11.2024 5

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The donor bros of tech

Genetic largesse from some of Silicon Valley’s elite appears to be a mix of narcissism, altruism and dreams of immortality

15.10.2024 20

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Google break-up could turn Big Tech into Medium Tech

The DoJ’s recommendations show how far the government is willing to go to shift the balance of power

09.10.2024 5

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Using fear to sell AI is a bad idea

Constant warnings about the technology’s power primes early users for disappointment

27.08.2024 10

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Digital meatballs and the rise of branded games

A virtual Ikea store without any products might seem like good advertising — but is it fun for the consumer?

13.08.2024 10

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