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The Viral Machine

Super Deluxe built a weird internet empire. Can it succeed on TV?

How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game

Inside the portable battery pack giant

The H-1B visa system has been broken for decades. Now workers want Trump to fix it

H-1B has become a treadmill for replacing US workers

Instant recall

Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing

Massive attack: How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web

How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web

The Future Agency: Inside the big business of imagining the future

"Every act of future making is an act of future taking."

After the smoke clears: inside Samsung's quest for redemption

The Galaxy S8 is Samsung’s most ambitious phone yet

Legal threats and disgruntled clients: inside the ‘Uber for private jets’

How JetSmarter puts fear into its millionaire customers

Can Genius beat the rap?

Genius quietly laid off a bunch of its engineers — now can it survive as a media company?

The empathy layer

Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet?

BuzzFeed vs. Trump

BuzzFeed News pushes further than its competitors. Can it handle the consequences?

Cipher War

After a century of failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines

Signal Boost

Demand for secret messaging apps is rising as Trump takes office

With therapy app Talkspace, patient anonymity and safety collide

Inside the messy world of anonymous therapy app Talkspace

Cracking the elaborate code

Why body language holds the key to virtual reality

Facebook and Google make lies as pretty as truth

How AMP and Instant Articles camouflage fake news

DeRay Mckesson on Black Lives Matter and building tools for digital activism

One of the Black Lives Matter movement’s most prominent voices is 31-year-old DeRay Mckesson. With his now-iconic blue vest, Mckesson, now the interim chief of Human Capital for Baltimore City Public Schools, has balanced using his platform online and off in order to draw attention to matters such as public safety and law enforcement reform.

Marc Andreessen: flying cars are closer than you think

Perfecting your digital assistant

Miami Beach has run out of sand. Now what?

Miami Beach has run out of sand. Now what?

EA's CEO on why your life is about to be a video game

Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, believes games in 2021 will be more diverse, more accessible, and simply more inescapable. Your smartphone and your game console will help you play with friends and strangers across the globe, but so might your virtual reality headset, your augmented reality glasses, or just the screen on your smart fridge.

Google X's Astro Teller on why delivery drones will mean the end of ownership

For the past five years the face of Google X has been Astro Teller, the so-called "Captain of Moonshots." For him, X is not a lab that churns out immediately useable technology or marketable products, but a place where innovation is "systemized" — imagine Henry Ford’s assembly line, but for ideas.

TaskRabbit's CEO on why people will still power an AI workforce

Five to 10 years from now, in my home, things will be largely solved so that I can spend more time with my family. You can imagine a world where you often spend time thinking about all the things that you need to do, but there will be so much automation that some of those things will be figured out for you.

The US Secretary of Transportation on a driverless America

New York has a new way to track deadly storms

We're bad at tracking deadly storms, but New York has a new way to see them coming

Google Pixel review: Home run

Android by Google

Speak, Memory

When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence

PlayStation VR review: When good enough is great