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

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The Virtual Future of Restaurants

There's a secret world of restaurants that you can only find when you open up the delivery apps. This brave new world of ghost kitchens and virtual brands has allowed traditional restaurants to access new revenue streams. And these new models are using data to shape new concepts and menus. But when tech reimagines what a restaurant even is, is the soul of an entire industry at stake? 

Biden stacks his administration with yet another tech foe

Welcome to the age of billionaire joyrides to space

From Macy’s to Albertsons, facial recognition is already everywhere

Don’t assume your iPhone is safe from hackers

What is CNN+ and why would you pay for it?

Internal Apple letter shows employees are still fighting to work from home

Most Americans like remote work — but Democrats like it more

The surgeon general wants Facebook to do more to stop Covid-19 lies

America’s monopoly problem stretches far beyond Big Tech

Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more

Racist trolls attacked England’s soccer team. Fans fought back.

For women, remote work is a blessing and a curse

The struggle to make health apps truly private

Richard Branson’s trip to space is about convincing others to come along 

Biden’s plan to make stuff cheaper

Elon Musk wants to dig a tunnel in Florida. What could go wrong?

Everything feels more expensive because it is

Google is facing yet another major antitrust lawsuit

How TikTok’s hate speech detection tool set off a debate about racial bias on the app

Trump’s lawsuits against Big Tech are just another fundraising tool

Trump’s lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google will probably go nowhere

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Remote workers are moving out of big cities — but not to the Midwest

The US power grid isn’t ready for climate change

Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse.

Trump is nowhere to be found on the Twitter clone his former spokesperson launched

Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws

Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs

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Many people don’t want to work unless it’s from home

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