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Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find

Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find

Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold:…

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Snow Closed the Highways. GPS Mapped a Harrowing Detour in the Sierra Nevada.

Snow Closed the Highways. GPS Mapped a Harrowing Detour in the Sierra Nevada.

The road once carried stagecoaches during the Gold Rush, twisting its way through what is now a national forest and…

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Big Tech Journeys Into the Virtual Reality Reaches of the Metaverse

Big Tech Journeys Into the Virtual Reality Reaches of the Metaverse

“We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. “For every dollar of hardware, we…

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The Year in Tech Empires

The Year in Tech Empires

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.Big Tech got bigger-er and…

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Lawmakers Urge Big Tech and Justice Dept. to Act on Suicide Site

Lawmakers Urge Big Tech and Justice Dept. to Act on Suicide Site

Families of those who spent time on the website and learned ways to die have long sought accountability from tech…

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The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups

The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups

OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sandy Carter left her job as a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing unit this month,…

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