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Recode

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

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WarnerMedia’s CEO explains why he’s blowing up the movie business

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Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city wants to condemn him anyway.

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What one of Amazon’s biggest critics thinks the future of the retail industry means for workers

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Online shopping is booming but so are returns. An old-school solution is gaining steam

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The death and rebirth of America’s department stores, in charts

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Ajit Pai, Trump’s FCC chair who repealed net neutrality, is leaving on January 20

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What comes after Zoom fatigue

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

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The death of the department store and the American middle class

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

Why streaming devices and streaming networks are fighting over your eyeballs 

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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.

Parler, the “free speech” Twitter wannabe, explained

The $35 million play to fix Democrats’ data problem is shutting down

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Big California donors want to fill Kamala Harris’s Senate seat with a woman of color

BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record”

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One of the few Black C-suite execs in tech is starting a firm to invest in Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs

It took a pandemic to change the movie business

Covid-19 is turning urgent care centers into America’s favorite clinics

Conspiracy theories, explained

Americans are embracing dangerous conspiratorial beliefs, from QAnon to coronavirus denial.

Inside the behind-the-scenes fight to convince Joe Biden about Silicon Valley

Twitter announces Fleets and audio spaces, two new things Twitter didn’t really invent

Amazon starts selling prescription drugs, with two-day delivery for Prime members

The future of commercial space travel is almost here with the latest SpaceX launch

Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”

Jeff Bezos plays it safe on his $10 billion climate giveaway

TikTok’s US ban has been delayed another two weeks — or maybe forever

Fox News’s election fraud pandering may be its most dangerous lie yet

Facebook’s election woes are headed to Georgia

How Biden’s FCC could fix America’s internet

Social media is making a bad political situation worse

Amazon gets hit with antitrust charges in Europe

Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine?

The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

Silicon Valley leaders celebrate the Biden win — and send a message to Trump