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We Owe Most Of Our Greatest Tech To The Government, Here’s What It Should Do Next
Here’s a project that only the government can do and would make America better in terms of economic opportunity.
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Apple In Preliminary Talks To Acquire Jay Z’s Tidal
Please don’t call it an acqui-hova.
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Facebook’s Unsettling Referendum On News
1.65 billion voted with their News Feeds.
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Thanks To Apple’s Influence, You’re Not Getting A Rifle Emoji
No realm of modern life is immune to the contentious national debate over guns, including emojis.
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We Tried The New iMessage App And It’s Going To Change Your Nudes Forever
Messages is getting a *massive* update in iOS 10.
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Apple’s Biggest Announcements From WWDC 2016
Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference is typically the company’s biggest event of the year, when the biggest products and updates are announced. Below, a running list of everything we learned at this year’s keynote.
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Satan’s Credit Card: What The Mark Of The Beast Taught Me About The Future Of Money
Silicon Valley has sold us on a cashless, cardless, walletless, supposedly frictionless future — but as I learned living in it for a month, we’re not quite there yet.
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When It Comes To The Future, Google Doesn’t Need To Be First
The search giant’s annual developer conference revealed that Google is playing catch-up to its Big Tech competitors and it doesn’t seem to care one bit.
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Google Is Proposing A New Set Of Emojis To Better Represent Women
The Google delegation’s proposal aims to add at least 13 new emojis “highlighting the diversity of women’s careers.”
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Siri’s Little Sister Viv Could Be The Virtual Assistant Of Your Dreams
Viv, a new AI-powered personal assistant, isn’t quite ready yet, but its first public demo showed a service that makes it so ludicrously easy to buy things that you can drop a grand in 140 seconds.
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Judge Says Uber Can’t Kill Sexual Harassment Lawsuit On Contract Employee Grounds
The ruling may entice more riders to come forward and bring suits against the company, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs.
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Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium
Internal emails offer a peek behind the scenes of the peculiar and little-known organization that oversees the development of a weird new universal language.
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Apple Announces Faster MacBooks With Better Battery Life
Apple’s MacBook laptops get an April upgrade — and a new rose gold color option.
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Journalist Matthew Keys Sentenced To 24 Months For Tribune Media Hack
Keys was convicted in October 2015 of three counts of criminal hacking under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for providing login credentials to members of the hacking organization Anonymous, which were then used to alter a Los Angeles Times story on the paper’s website.
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In The Age Of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As The New Statesmen
Welcome to 2016: where tech’s biggest CEOs are selling themselves as world leaders.
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Former Uber Worker Claims Company Investigator Illegally Entered Her Home
A former customer service representative alleges an “Uber investigator from California” trespassed in her apartment and intimidated her in response to a BuzzFeed News story.
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Today’s Apple Keynote Was Tomorrow’s Opening Argument
Apple wants you to see the company less as gadget maker and more as a powerful, benevolent, world-shaping force.
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General Motors Takes Another Step Toward A Driverless Future
The automotive giant is coming after Google, Uber, Tesla, and the rest with its acquisition of the autonomous vehicle company Cruise.
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Uber Apologizes For “Imperfect (And Fictitious)” Rebuttal Of A BuzzFeed News Claim
Zendesk reached out to Uber to dispute one of Uber’s claims regarding high search results for “rape” in leaked screenshots.
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Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints
BuzzFeed News obtained internal data on rapes and sexual assaults lodged via Uber’s customer service system, as the company attempted to find the leaker.












