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Boston, MA, United States
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The Creepy Rise of Real Companies Spawning Fictional Design
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Batteries Still Suck, But Researchers Are Working on It
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Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence
Time wasa software companies left inventing new hardware to others.
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Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform
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The Surprisingly Simple iPad Apps Pilots se to Make Your Flight Better
As you queue anxiously on the jet bridge, you pull out your tablet to see how much battery you've got left.
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A New Startup Wants to se Crispr to Diagnose Disease
In 2011, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a landmark paper introducing the world to Crispr. The arcane family of bacterial proteins...
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When John Doerr Brought a 'Gift' to Google's Founders
On a fall day in 1999, in the heart of Silicon Valley, I arrived at a two-story, L-shaped structure off the 101 freeway. It was young Google's headquarters, and...
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Silicon Valley's Latest Revolution: Cutting Out Wall Street
When Snap went public last year, it sold 200 million shares; none of them carried any voting rights. When Spotify went public earlier this month, it raised no money...
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Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...
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The White House Loses Its Cybersecurity Brain Trust
Today, the White House confirmed that cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce will head back to the National Security Agency, where he previously ran the nation's top...
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AI Learns a New Trick: Measuring Brain Cells
In 2007, I spent the summer before my junior year of college removing little bits of brain from rats, growing them in tiny plastic dishes, and poring over the ...
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An Alternate Reality Game That Takes Freshmen Orientation to a New Level
A group of teenagers has been interrogating me for almost an hour.
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Europe's New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive...
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The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World
An elite Russian hacking team, a historic ransomware attack, an espionage group in the Middle East, and countless small time cryptojackers all have one thing in...
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Inside the Command Center Keeping the Winter Olympics Safe
It's a Sunday during the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, at one in the afternoon—at least in this simulation.
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Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet
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