Tech Giants
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Mark Lennihan / AP What Amazon Thinks You’re Worth
Shoppers were offered a $10 credit in exchange for handing over their browser data. It’s an investment that pays dividends for Amazon.
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Alastair Grant / AP Photo The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide
For many reasons, parents and teachers may fail to intervene when they spot LGBTQ teens in trouble. Can Google help?
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Towfiqu Photography / Getty The Analysts Recording Your Screen Say It’s for Your Own Good
Secretly watching users navigate an app can help companies fix bugs. But it can also be a tool to manipulate customers’ behavior.
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Paul Sakuma / AP I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg
The author of the book that inspired The Social Network reflects on a decade of Mark Zuckerberg’s career.
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bulentgultek / Getty / The Atlantic Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die
On its 15th anniversary, a look at how the site has changed social life by keeping weak connections on life support forever
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Yves Herman / Reuters Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy
The company enables the surveillance that supposedly offends its values.
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Reuters / Lucas Jackson Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers
Welcome to the abyss of the “reverse supply chain,” where hope springs eternal.
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Javrock / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown
No meme account is safe—not even @God.
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Alex Wong / Getty How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion
The Democratic lawmaker’s memorable moment during Sundar Pichai’s congressional testimony helped one party: Google.
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Jim Young / Reuters What Google’s CEO Couldn’t Explain to Congress
Sundar Pichai struggled to explain the reality of his company’s power to a House committee convinced of a liberal conspiracy.
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Caitlin O'Hara Finally, the Self-Driving Car
Google’s sister company Waymo built the self-driving car. Now it needs to bring it to life.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine
In Toronto, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, hopes to create the sensor-filled metropolis of tomorrow.
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Alicia Tatone How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts
In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters When the Tech Mythology Collapses
The industry’s fall from grace may feel unprecedented, but we have a model for what happens when a beloved industry fails us.
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Shutterstock Custom Photo Filters Are the New Instagram Gold Mine
How selling Adobe Lightroom presets took the “influencer” world by storm
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Steven Clevenger / Corbis / Getty How YouTube’s Algorithm Really Works
… if you’re not the average YouTube user
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Facebook Election That Wasn’t
Despite Donald Trump’s vaunted digital efforts, Facebook appears to have played a secondary role in the midterms.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP The Google Walkout Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Thousands of employees around the world left their desks today to protest sexual harassment. But they’re going to have to do a lot more to make lasting change.
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Christophe Morin / IP3 / Getty Facebook Could Be Unrecognizable by 2020
Not even Mark Zuckerberg is sure what it will look like.
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Brian Snyder/Reuters Even If You Hate Zuckerberg Now, You’ll Love Him Later
Just ask Bill Gates how it works.
