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The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder
According to market-fixated tech pundits and professional skeptics, the artificial intelligence bubble has popped, and winter’s back. Fei-Fei Li isn’t…
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The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It
My first story for WIRED—yep, 31 years ago—looked at a group of “crypto rebels” who were trying to pry strong…
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Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Be Neutral–While Tossing Gifts to Trump and the GOP
This week Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Jim Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee. For months, the…
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Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine
Amongst the sea of American flags and ubiquitous blue signs at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week prowled…
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Google's Rise Was Inevitable. So Was Its Antitrust Ruling
Larry Page and Sergey Brin never liked hanging with reporters. “Larry can be a very sensitive and good person, but…
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Trump's Crypto Embrace Could Be a Disaster for Bitcoin
Donald Trump is an unlikely crypto ally. The power of bitcoin, embodied in Satoshi Nakamoto’s founding document, is that it…
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Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It's Calling Again
Steve Jobs is 28 years old, and seems a little nervous as he starts his speech to a group of…
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Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's Billionaire Elegy
What potential national disaster—one that threatens to destroy the United States—keeps you awake at night? For some it might be…
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At 25, Metafilter Feels Like a Time Capsule From Another Internet
Jessamyn West used to describe Metafilter as a social network for non-friends, a description belied in part by the tight-knit…
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