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Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead?

iPhone 12 demand is strong, and Macs continue to sell very well during work-from-home life.

Pondering why, in the internet era, it has become so common for big tech companies to treat their power users like dirt. (Yes, this is about Google Reader.)

You can’t download it anymore.

@realDonaldTrump is gone.

Signal is benefitting from Facebook privacy fears and a plug from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Psychology researchers discover one type of masculinity drives Trump supporters more than others.

The origins of the internet lie in American imperialism, as do the rules that still govern it.

After today, platforms should finally see the moral clarity about their role in world events.

It says the risk of harm is greater than the news value.

Emergency communications could cause chaos or start a war — and the vulnerability has yet to be patched.

On this special subscriber video call, we will walked through our brand-new list of the 50 most promising early- and mid-stage private venture-backed startups. The companies, identified through months of detailed reporting, span fintech, robotics, video streaming, gaming, automation software and more. We walked through the reporting, including lots of previously unknown financial details, that informed our rankings and what we're paying attention to as we work on the next version of this list.

Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.

Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?

At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

The collapse of America’s middle class crushed department stores. Amazon and the pandemic are the final blows.

A new browser extension from The Markup

As the pandemic makes an already terrible housing crisis worse, a new version of house-sitting signals a broken real-estate market.

Gebru was technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team.

Tech’s biggest big idea.

In countries without free elections, fraud and coercion regularly make a difference. But that’s not the country we have, and it’s not the election we had.

Splunk, Dropbox and Brex followed similar formulas as they grew from small startups to established companies. To attract employees and customers, each set up elaborate San Francisco offices and plastered billboards for its services around the city. Dropbox three years ago leased a giant new ...

On the politics of public lighting

In a new interview, the tech labor activist and A.I. researcher discusses major issues in Silicon Valley today

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Novel categorizations and “staining” techniques uncovered how much space on the search results page Google dedicates to itself

Conservative news thrives on Facebook because the incentives Facebook values align with those pioneered by conservative media.

We must not mistake Ethical Consumption—a private act—for political power or organized, collective social change that benefits everyone.