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  1. billion dollar ideas
    If You Invented the Headphone Jack in 2019, You’d Be a Billionaire“No more charging, no more pairing, no lost signals. Just pure sound.”
  2. best of 2018
    The 10 Best Video Games of 2018Superheroes, Norse mythology, and a Wild West masterpiece.
  3. decisions
    How the Roomba Company Decided to Stop Making Bots for the MilitaryCEO Colin Angle explains why iRobot divested itself of its work for the defense industry.
  4. huawei
    Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou Arrested and Now Everyone Is Very NervousThe heir apparent to the Chinese telecom giant was arrested in Canada during a stopover for extradition to the U.S.
  5. smartphones
    We’re No Longer in the Smartphone Plateau. We’re in the Smartphone Decline.Growth in smartphone sales stopped surging years ago. In the next decade, they’re likely to decline. What does that world look like?
  6. data security
    Marriott Hack Potentially Affects 500 Million, But Probably Not ProfitsIf confirmed, the hack would be the second largest in history. But looking at past precedent, the company likely won’t suffer real consequences.
  7. general motors
    Self-Driving Cars Are the Future. Jobs in Auto Manufacturing Are Not.The future looks bright for GM’s self-driving division, especially after GM cut 14,700 jobs and $6 billion in costs. For autoworkers? Not so much.
  8. technology
    Unable to Avoid Bias, Gmail Stops Using Gender in Its Automated RepliesGmail attempted to automate the drudgery of email, and accidentally automated decades of gender discrimination in the process.
  9. decisions
    How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash CowAmazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy explains how the business that allows everything from Slack to Netflix to function came to be.
  10. linkedin
    The Kids Love LinkedIn and the Stories Format. Now They Can Do Both!How do you do, fellow kids.
  11. apple
    Poor iPhone Supply Chain Forecasts Are Making Everyone Very NervousThe companies that supply the parts and labor behind the iPhone are all cutting down on production. Should Apple investors be worried?
  12. ride sharing apps
    Lyft Does More to Woo Drivers As It Preps for IPOAs both Lyft and Uber prepare to go public in 2019, both companies will be fighting for drivers just as they fight for passengers.
  13. technology
    An Augmented-Reality App Could Mean Guilt-Free Screen Time With Your KidsWonderscope creates a 3D storybook right in front of your eyes — and could help you feel better about letting your kids spend time with a screen.
  14. how to get away with murder
    Don’t Murder Anyone Around an Amazon Echo During Election SeasonA helpful hint from us to you.
  15. artphone
    A Smartphone, a Stylus, and My Season As a Sketch ArtistYou don’t need to be divinely talented to enjoy the convenient relaxation of smartphone sketching on your commute.
  16. artificial intelligence
    Should This Chinese AI Bot Replace All News Anchors?A hard question with no easy answers.
  17. youtube
    8 in 10 Parents Let Kids Watch YouTube — Even If They Don’t Like What They FindMost parents let their children watch YouTube, and most also report that they’ve come across something “unsuitable for children.”
  18. spam phone calls
    FCC Says Carriers Have Until 2019 to Stop RobocallsThe FCC is just as sick and tired of constant spam calls as you are.
  19. oath breaker
    Verizon Renames Oath to Verizon Media GroupOath breaking.
  20. business
    Apple Has Completely Changed Up How It Reports iPhone Sales. Why?The world has changed a lot in the past ten years. The company has to find new ways to brag.
  21. the techoning
    Alphabet Exec Resigns After Exposé and Ahead of Planned Employee Walkout“Director of mad science” Paul DeVaul has been ousted after a New York Times exposé and ahead of a planned walkout by hundreds of Google employees.
  22. apple
    Apple Tries to Woo Back the Creative Pros That Make Up Apple’s CoreApple would like to remind you that it also makes computers and not just iPhones.
  23. amazon
    Americans Can’t Agree on Anything, Except Loving AmazonWe are a country deeply divided, but not when it comes to the convenience of one-stop shopping with free two-day shipping on orders of $25 or more.
  24. iphone xr
    The iPhone XR Is the Most Exciting Phone Apple’s Released in YearsIn the iPhone XR, price and the features fully line up in the buyer’s favor.
  25. gaming
    Red Dead Redemption 2 Is Pure, Chaotic Fun on HorsebackSaddle up for one of the year’s most anticipated video games.
  26. facebook
    Oculus’s Brendan Iribe Is the Latest Founder to Flee FacebookThere must be something in the water at Menlo Park — founders of companies that get acquired by Facebook don’t seem to like sticking around.
  27. global tech
    WhatsApp Says It’s Too Late to Stop Far-Right Fake News in BrazilFake news stories spread like wildfire on messaging service WhatsApp — and there’s no easy way to stop it.
  28. decisions
    Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?Yahoo was negotiating to buy Facebook and Del.icio.us at the same time. Zuckerberg famously said no. Del.icio.us CEO Joshua Schachter said yes.
  29. tech boot camp
    How to Use Your Phone to Use Your Phone LessThe “hair of the dog” method for screen addiction.
  30. microsoft
    Paul Allen Turned Microsoft Into a ColossusAfter convincing high-school friend Bill Gates to drop out of college and start a software company called Micro-Soft, Allen helped change the world.
  31. jamal khashoggi
    Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch Almost Certainly Didn’t Record His DeathA story floating around social media and Turkish newspapers about missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi doesn’t add up.
  32. tech boot camp
    5 Things That Will (and 5 Things That Won’t) Save Your Phone BatteryThe best phone in the world is just a very shiny and expensive coaster without battery life.
  33. private eyes
    The Facebook Portal Could Be Good If Anyone But Facebook Released ItHas there ever been a more ill-timed product launch than Facebook selling a video-chat camera for your home?
  34. keep it like a fatsecret
    This Is Hands Down the Best Calorie Counter App, Except for Its NameWhat’s in a name? Quite a bit, it turns out.
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    Talking With the Man Whose Techno-Thriller Is Based on a China Supply-Chain HackAugust Cole and P.W. Singer’s 2015 book Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War just got a whole lot scarier.
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    Either Bloomberg or Apple and Amazon Are Badly Wrong About the China Hack StorySomebody is wrong, and it’s driving me crazy trying to figure out who — and why.
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    Hoo Boy, China May Have Hacked Apple, Amazon, and Dozens MoreTiny microchips implanted on motherboards used in servers by Apple, Amazon, and over 30 other companies are now under intense scrutiny.
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    Holy Crap, Am I a Microsoft Surface Fanboy?They’re the laptops that Apple should be making.
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    Facebook Has Everything GE Once Had, Except JobsWhile GE has lost the equivalent of Facebook’s market valuation since 2018, it also employs ten times as many people as Facebook.
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    I Can’t Control My Social-Media Usage. But iOS 12 Can!Using technology to solve my addiction to technology. What could go wrong?
  41. the kavanaugh hearings
    This Is What Christine Blasey Ford Saw As She TestifiedTV cameras didn’t capture the full scope of what Ford faced as she answered questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  42. the kavanaugh hearings
    This Is What Christine Blasey Ford Saw As She TestifiedTV cameras didn’t capture the full scope of what Ford faced as she answered questions before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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    If Zuck Acquires You, You’ll Feel Gross. The Only Question Is HowTwo separate products, three separate founders, two separate reasons for leaving — all with regrets about being bought (& made rich) by Zuck.
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    Why Would Google’s Ex-CEO Predict a Separate Chinese Internet?Let’s put on our tinfoil hats and read too much into what Eric Schmidt had to say about China and the future of the internet.
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    Google’s Internal Resistance Probably Won’t Keep It Out of ChinaA cadre of Google employees managed to stop Google’s work with the U.S. military. But Google seems much more ready to keep pushing on China.
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    I Wanted to Understand This Fareed Zakaria Meme. So I Talked to Waluigi.Twitter’s favorite new meme format for today goofs on Fareed Zakaria talking to Bono about populism.
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    How Nervous Should You Be About Life Insurance That Tracks Your Health Habits?Would you share data about your health habits to save a few bucks on your insurance?
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    E.U.’s Biggest and Baddest Antitrust Enforcer Pokes at AmazonMargrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, takes an initial look at how Amazon uses data from its marketplace.
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    4 Possible Futures for Elon Musk and TeslaDoes Tesla motor along? Does it get acquired? Will Elon serve jail time? We do some divination for America’s weirdest CEO.
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    The Key to Amazon’s E-Commerce Success Is Also Its Biggest HeadacheAmazon is a platform for anyone to sell nearly anything to anyone, and is tremendously lucrative. It’s also tremendously hard to moderate.
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