Category Archives: Business

The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress

Right-wing networks from Brazil and the US fueled calls for violence. Experts accuse tech platforms of looking the other way.

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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley

Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.

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Twitter Promised Them Severance. They Got Nothing

Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening.

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No One Will Escape the FTX Fallout

Try as they might, crypto companies pressured by the trading platform’s collapse are failing to bail themselves out.

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Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer

The next big thing in tech isn’t the blockchain or the metaverse—it’s a mind-bending wave of algorithmic content machines.

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Does Meta’s Horizon Workrooms Deliver? Customers Say Yes … and No

Companies trialing the metaverse space say it’s kind of fun, but only in small doses.

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The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun

A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.

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Can’t Decide What to Do About Twitter? Here Are Some Options

It’s not too late to move toward your ideal social media existence. You could opt for Mastodon or Post, or stay and hope things turn around.

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Digital Traders Want to Go Fish

A network of trading platforms is restructuring the seafood industry and tackling waste.

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Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe

The CEO of Proton says new competition laws have finally given him a voice in Brussels, even as he fights the EU’s anti-encryption campaign.

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