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A Virus Variant Spreads, Vaccine Efforts Accelerate, and More
Catch up on the most important updates from this week.
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WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years
A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016.
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Your Media Diet Will Never Be the Same
We have a glut of streaming options. But if recent events show us anything, it's that live TV news is far from obsolete.
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The Mandalorian Is Way Better in Season 2
The first season of the Star Wars series was good. But in the second, the visuals and writing make the jump to lightspeed.
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A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard
Plus: Dorsey in the Trump administration's early days, how to define privacy, and chaos in the Capitol.
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Get the Most Out of Your iPad With These Accessories
These are some of our favorite stands, cases, keyboards, and Pencils no matter which iPad you have.
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Trump Gets Suspended, but CES Does Not
This week, we analyze how the social media platforms reacted to the events of January 6. We also offer our preview of what to expect next week at CES.
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The Rise of Sierra Online Wasn’t Exactly a Fairytale
Founder Ken Williams opens up about his new book, video game design in the late 80s—and his regrets about selling the company.
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New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring
A bill would require firms to disclose when they use software to assess candidates, and vendors would have to ensure that their tech doesn’t discriminate.
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The DC Mobs Could Become a Mythologized Recruitment Tool
Wednesday’s riot in Washington was the result of conspiracy theories, anti-government sentiment, and online extremism—and it could start a movement.
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How Fast Can Scientists Find the New Coronavirus Strains?
The discovery of more contagious variants of SARS-CoV-2 in the US sparks a push for a long-overdue national genomic surveillance network.
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A Game Livestreaming Site Has Become an Extremist Haven
DC rioters used DLive to stream from the Capitol to thousands of people on Wednesday—and to get donations from them too.
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Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security Mess
Wednesday's insurrection could have exposed congressional data and devices in ways that have yet to be appreciated.
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The Race to Preserve the DC Mob's Digital Traces
The pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol livestreamed their actions. As social media platforms scramble to remove dangerous content, what will become of all that footage?
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Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have spent years fomenting and enabling yesterday's violence at the Capitol. Policymakers need to do something about it.
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Call Trump's Scheme for What It Is: Autocracy
Pundits and platforms have spent years mislabeling and under-appreciating threats to democracy. It led to the mob.
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Even Mark Zuckerberg Has Had Enough of Trump
By freezing the president’s accounts, social media platforms finally drew a line. It only took a violent insurrection in the Capitol to get them there.
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Do I Have a Moral Obligation to Be On TikTok?
I'm only 30, and already feeling like I owe it to society to keep up.
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Climate Change Is Turning Cities Into Ovens
A new model estimates that by 2100, cities across the world could warm as much as 4.4 degrees Celsius. It’s a deadly consequence of the “heat island” effect.
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