The Evidence Is Not With Joy Reid
The anchor's claim that her blog was hacked to include homophobic posts looks implausible.
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Nigel Young / Foster and Partners New Mexico’s Sad Bet on Space Exploration
Spaceport America was supposed to bring a thriving space industry to the southern New Mexico desert—but for now it’s a futurist tourist attraction, not an operational harbor to the cosmos.
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Jose Gomez / Reuters What You Can't Say on Facebook
A new document reveals the scope of Facebook’s power—and a new commitment to transparency about it.
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Arindam Dey / Getty An Indian Politician Claimed Ancient Hindus Invented the Internet
… then the Indian internet laughed at him.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Alexa and the Age of Casual Rudeness
“Alexa, play Jeopardy!” my son will bark. And she follows his command.
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David Aaron Troy / Getty Cupholders Are Everywhere
As people spent more and more time in cars, auto interiors transformed into living spaces, where food and drink became necessities. An Object Lesson.
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Jeff Roberson / AP I Sat Through the First Stop on Facebook's Feel-Good Road Show
Amid scandal, the company is traveling across America to teach local businesses how to make it big online.
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Julio Cortez /AP Amazon May Have a Counterfeit Problem
The company is facing multiple lawsuits from brands who say it does not do enough to prevent fakes from being listed on its website.
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Oscar Bolton Green A Silicon Valley Pot Deal
Cannabis entrepreneurs gather to pitch venture capitalists, "Shark Tank"-style, for a $10,000 prize.
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Daniel Stolle Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind
Legally blind since age 18, my father missed out on the first digital revolution.
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Bettmann / Getty / Katie Martin / The ... How Cycling Clothing Opened Doors for Women
Advances in biking gear had an impact on advances in gender equality. An Object Lesson.
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Larry Downing ‘Mission Accomplished’ and the Meme Presidency
Donald Trump used an infamous phrase to describe U.S. military action in Syria, the latest in the president’s tradition of remixing and amplifying messages from his predecessors.
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AP / Joe Marquette / Reuters / Leah ... The Dot-Coms Were Better Than Facebook
Twenty years ago, another high-profile tech executive testified before Congress. It was a more innocent time.
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Tobias Schwarz / Reuters Drug Use Is Detectable on Your Fingerprints
Should law enforcement be able to test them?
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Radio Atlantic News Update: Who Could Tame Facebook?
After CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony, are U.S. legislators prepared to regulate the social network? Should they? -
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Pictures Ltd. / Corbis / Getty The Human Body Is Too Complex for Easy Fixes
You don’t need to be hacked.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Fake Facebook Pages Targeting Vietnam Veterans
The pages are operated out of Eastern Europe and the social network took almost two months to shut one of them down.
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Sergio G. Cañizares / Getty The Bargain at the Heart of the Kid Internet
A proliferation of free, entertaining online content often leads parents, kids, and tech companies to overlook—or worse, disregard—data-privacy laws.
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Yoshikazu Tsuno / Getty Your Heartbeat Could Power a Smartphone
Researchers are designing devices that capture electricity from on—or even inside—the human body.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Most Important Exchange of the Zuckerberg Hearing
The Facebook CEO’s defense of data collection is slipperier than it seems.
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Alex Brandon / AP The 3 Questions Mark Zuckerberg Hasn’t Answered
A simple way for the House to outdo the Senate
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The 13 Strangest Moments From the Zuckerberg Hearing
The first day of the Facebook CEO's congressional testimony featured a snubbed chicken chain, an aspiring teen Instagram star, and plenty of confused dialogue.
