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Farewell to Obama, our first digital president

The Obama administration embraced a fresh approach to leveraging technology platforms, and improved the experience of interacting with government.

Hey Amazon, we’re still getting used to voice-first devices — please don’t give Echo a screen

Adding an alternative would slow down adoption and weaken the core experience.

The tech industry and the search for a cancer cure

Nvidia, Intel, IBM and other Silicon Valley companies are making finding a cure a high priority.

Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ goes to Washington

“You can’t con people, at least not for long,” wrote the president-elect in his best-selling business book. And when the honeymoon period expires, Trump will have to start delivering the goods.

The tech industry is reshaping philanthropy, one big bet at a time

This Tuesday is #GivingTuesday, where leaders across nonprofit and for-profit industries use social media to promote the end-of-year giving season.

Black Friday isn’t dead. It’s just irrelevant.

We’re not buying it anymore.

Facebook, Google and now Verizon are accelerating their tracking efforts despite consumers’ privacy concerns

They’re all pursuing the holy grail for digital advertising — syncing up personal information with browsing history and app usage.

Let’s get real. Facebook is not to blame for Trump.

Rather than blaming Facebook or other platforms for the trouble in which we find ourselves, let’s give credit where credit is due: The American people.

Here’s how we should deal with fake news online

Doing nothing can no longer be the default option.

Silicon Valley is now the media capital of the world

Northern California media companies now reach two billion people every day, taking billions of dollars in advertising revenue from the East Coast media conglomerates.

If the Tesla and SolarCity merger goes through, Elon Musk will be a step closer to creating a solar-powered car

Whatever the outcome of Thursday’s vote, we’ll learn even more about his vision for the next generation of batteries and energy storage.

Virtual reality is the new tech frontier, but it’s still a boys’ club

We have a big opportunity right now to open the doors and make sure VR, AR and AI are more inclusive.

With Apple now selling used iPhones, the new phone market may have peaked

Today, buying a smartphone is a lot like buying a car.

Why wait for a new smart car when you can update your existing one?

With Google’s new Android Auto app, end users start to get a feel for what an integrated Android Auto experience would be like — but in their current car.

I just bought Snap’s new Spectacles from a vending machine

A physical-world stunt for a multi-platform digital media phenomenon. Welcome to the future.

While Amazon Alexa quickly becomes part of the family, Google Home is like a stranger who knows too much about you

Digital assistants from Amazon and Google have different perspectives and personalities.

If you’re blaming Facebook for the presidential election results, you’re an idiot

Facebook’s algorithm and “echo chamber” or “filter bubble” or whatever it may have created did not lead to this.

Here’s what a Clinton or Trump presidential victory means for tech regulation

She has a detailed platform, with an emphasis on expanding broadband availability. He’s likely to be more pro-business and anti-regulation.

Trump supporters can’t use ‘diversity of opinion’ as a defense for his harmful speech

If you have not yet voted, please vote for inclusion today.

The backlash against Apple’s new MacBook Pro from its core user base is unprecedented

Apple’s challenge now is pleasing the much larger mainstream Mac user base without alienating the power users.

Hillary Clinton’s legacy on STEM is why anyone still uncertain should give her their vote

If you want to understand what Clinton can do for America, talk to a millennial math-and-science nerd from Arkansas who benefited from her visionary work.

Young adults take more security measures for their online privacy than their elders

The attitudes, concerns and practices of 13-year-olds are, as you might imagine, quite different from those of 35-year-olds.

The MacBook Pro’s new Touch Bar brings macros to the masses

It’s an important evolution of Apple’s contribution to user interface design.

With the Touch Bar, Apple again puts its faith in third-party developers

And it makes the calculator the killer app. Seriously — you heard it here first.

Amazon’s moves could start a price war among music streaming services

Music as a loss leader is back.

The PC that would not die

At 35, the personal computer is not only not dead, it has never been stronger or more attractive.

The gig economy has grown big, fast — and that’s a problem for workers

It’s not about “sharing” — it’s about service, and it clearly demarcates the served and the servants.

Here's why massive website outages will continue happening

The “new normal” of that massive attack, and other takeaways.

Connected devices are easily hacked. Why aren’t we holding manufacturers accountable?

We’ve allowed just about anyone to ship new attack vectors (a.k.a. IoT devices) with zero responsibility for making them secure.

Platforms like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP are making it harder, not easier, to publish to the web

Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s.

We took a new car for a spin and now we’re hooked on Siri

Experiencing Apple’s auto ecosystem with CarPlay, Apple Watch — and even Maps.

How to solve for the lack of women in technology

Why is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S. — which is predicted to provide more job opportunities than all other professional sectors — still failing to attract and retain women?