In 2011, Jeff Bezos dreamt up a talking device. But making the virtual assistant sound intelligent proved far more difficult than anyone could have imagined.

Hip hop legend Chuck D shares the lessons he’s picked up after almost 40 years spent speaking truth to power.

"Alexa, show me the video, 'Donald Trump says "China.'"

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In rural Oregon, one small town’s crackdown on its homeless population gets a helping hand from good, clean Christian “charity.”

Six Americans logged their news consumption over the course of a day and, in doing so, probed their habits and perceptions.

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It all started with an email.

I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family.

Philanthropy among the elite class in the United States and the United Kingdom does more to create goodwill for the super-wealthy than to alleviate social ills for the poor, according to a new meta-analysis.

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Corporate motivation isn’t enough when it comes to digital preservation. Here’s a case for creating a National Register of Historic Places for websites.

The Internet Archive has grand ambitions for preserving the internet. But in order to do that, Big Tech has to stay out of the way.

It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.

Robinhood is not only riddled with scandal; the company was founded on a pernicious myth.

From freemium products to open-source projects to marketplaces to UGC platforms, free-to-play games are already everywhere.

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The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”

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