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‘Algospeak’ is helping social media users evade algorithmic detection
A linguistic arms race is raging online—and it isn’t clear who’s winning. On one side are social networks like Facebook,...
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This Jordanian startup is creating water out of thin air—and training a new generation of entrepreneurs
Families in Jordan plan their day around water, scrambling to finish cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry before their water turns off. The...
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Why one of the country’s largest solar arrays is being built in Illinois
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for the newsletter here. The largest...
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Still haven’t filed your taxes? Here’s how to get the automatic extension
If you forgot about tax filing until you were clearing up the matzo crumbs, stray Easter eggs, or winter wardrobe this week, there’s no...
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How to survive and thrive as an elite marketer
When Visa hired Frank Cooper III as its new chief marketing officer in March 2022, it was a sign that the financial services and payments company...
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The new season of HBO’s ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ is designed to leave you breathless
Robin Thede broke ground with season 1 of A Black Lady Sketch Show by being the first sketch-comedy series to have an all-Black female cast, not...
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IRS tax day 2023: Getting laid off can affect your return in surprising ways, H&R Block expert warns
Dealing with a job loss is stressful enough, but for countless Americans who were laid off in 2022, this coming week could bring them the added...
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Amazon arrives fashionably late to the generative AI arms race, but with a smart solution
Four of the five Big Tech companies have now planted their generative AI flags in the ground. Amazon quietly announced Thursday that it would...
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How digital modeling plays a key role in restoring the Notre Dame cathedral
It’s been roughly four years since a fire ripped through Notre Dame, the Catholic cathedral in Paris that’s historically drawn...
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Match Group Asia CEO Malgosia Green on tailoring product offerings for Japan’s dating culture
Malgosia Green is three months away from uprooting her life in Vancouver and fully immersing herself in Singapore as CEO of Match Group Asia....
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The one thing Andy Jassy’s letter to Amazon shareholders didn’t mention: Warehouse safety
In his annual letter to shareholders on Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that he has taken “a deep look across the company,” for...
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Here’s what a 10,000-character Twitter Blue tweet looks like
Back in 2006, Twitter launched as a microblogging website, allowing users to post tweets up to 140 characters. This brevity was key to the...
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How this one shift can make your hiring practices more inclusive
The number of Americans with a criminal record has risen sharply over the past three decades. Now, more than 70 million people, or roughly one in...
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HR often sucks. Here’s how it could be better
Ask many corporate workers what they think of human resources, and they’ll rattle off a litany of stereotypes: HR is incompetent, any brush...
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Hear us out: Max dumping the HBO name is actually a smart business move for WBD
When Warner Bros. Discovery announced this week that it would be renaming its streaming service from HBO Max to simply Max, many HBO fans were,...
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Why activists turned this busted sidewalk into a flourishing garden
Tactical urbanism, whereby citizens set out to improve public spaces using temporary or low-cost interventions, often involves activities like...
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No adults allowed: Google designed its new tech lab specifically for teens
Next to the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, California, a new tech space opened recently. With desks for coding, hardware for robotics, and a...
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How you can use your phone to make passwords a thing of the past
Passwords could soon become passé. Effective passwords are cumbersome, all the more so when reinforced by two-factor authentication. But...
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This desert bird’s feathers could inspire a new, slosh-free water bottle
Sometime in the future, the water bottle you carry on a run, or the nasal swab you brave at the health center, could be inspired by the feathers...
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The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer
Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. No matter how many companies...
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Libraries are under attack—and so are library workers
Scratch nearly any kind of story—political, social, economic, cultural, and so on—and you’ll find a labor story. No matter...
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This futuristic recycling plant is mining your old phone for gold
If you drop off an old cell phone for recycling, the circuit board inside it will probably be taken out, packed in a crate, and shipped off to a...
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It’s been one year since Elon first offered to buy Twitter. Ex-employees say he’s ‘constitutionally incapable’ of turning things around.
Exactly one year ago, Elon Musk shocked the tech world by putting in a bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion. In signature Musk fashion, that figure...
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FTX says it may restart its collapsed crypto exchange
Last November, crypto giant FTX collapsed in spectacular fashion, bringing comparisons to the downfall of Lehman Brothers and criminal charges...
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There’s a new version of Stable Diffusion, and it’s truly amazing
We just got the year’s biggest AI news so far, this side of ChatGPT-4: Stable Diffusion XL is out, and it is simply incredible. It’s...