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Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.

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Lower-income students are paying the price for the global laptop shortage

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Here’s why you can’t play Fortnite’s new season on your iPhone

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Facebook initially failed to remove a Kenosha militia page despite complaints

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Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people, asks for a second chance at charity

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The bigger stakes of the TikTok debate

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The military has a history of using video games to recruit. So why was there a backlash when its soldier-gamers started playing online?

Apple wants to stop advertisers from following you around the web. Facebook has other ideas.

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Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform.

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What comes after Zoom fatigue

It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?

Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain

Everything you need to know about Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data

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The real cost of Amazon

"It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar" — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America.

Contracts, hacks, and Google: What to consider before you get a home security system

Government shutdowns of “nonessential” retailers were a huge gift for Amazon, Walmart, and Target

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What’s really going on with the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump PAC that’s pissing off lots of people

Trump just embraced followers of the QAnon conspiracy movement

Listen to our new podcast with never-before-told stories about Amazon’s ascent

Facebook is finally cracking down on QAnon

How a viral photo of USPS collection boxes became a lesson in misinformation

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Most Americans think social media companies are censoring people

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What the heck is happening with the Postal Service?

As November nears, the Postal Service is facing a crisis that could interfere with the election.

Why the surge in racist misinformation about Kamala Harris is so worrisome

The company behind Fortnite dared Apple to shutter its game on iPhones. Now Apple has gone ahead and sort of done that.

The dystopian tech that companies are selling to help schools reopen sooner

GPT-3, explained: This new language AI is uncanny, funny — and a big deal

Facebook’s new voter information center gives Americans fact-checked voting information

Netflix soured the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, its showrunners say

How social justice slideshows took over Instagram

Harris is the choice Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley

Facebook bans blackface and certain anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Twitter is finally helping people shut out “reply guys”

Do you really need to worry about your security on TikTok? Here’s what we know.

The TikTok drama shines a spotlight on the rare tech investor who backs Trump

Bill Gates is spending $150 million to try to make a coronavirus vaccine as cheap as $3

What women in Congress want from Facebook

Jeff Bezos offers a clue to his $10 billion climate change strategy

Trump issued an executive order effectively banning TikTok if it doesn’t sell in the next 45 days

Facebook is extending its work-from-home policy until July 2021

Perhaps months too late, a Covid-19 contact tracing app comes to America

Facebook took down a Trump post for the first time 

TikTok clone Instagram Reels is just one of the many times Facebook has copied its competitors

Sen. Ron Wyden helped create the Big Tech industry. Now he wants to hold it accountable.

Walmart has again delayed the launch of its Amazon Prime competitor Walmart+