Tech

here we go

Elon Musk tweets link from site known to push right-wing misinformation

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Feature

Weak Apple projections hint at global slump

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layoffs

Peloton makes 4th round of layoffs this year

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Briefing

The Supreme Court and the future of the internet

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Deal or no deal

Elon Musk reverses, offers to purchase Twitter at original price

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Digital Civil Liberties

White House releases AI Bill of Rights

A view of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

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Court in Session

Supreme Court to hear arguments over YouTube's liability in terrorist attack

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Feature

Mortgage rates highest since 2008

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Power Struggle

Brazil suspends sale of iPhones that come without a charger

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Briefing

Moonbound

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Briefing

The consequential war for control of Miami's Spanish-language radio

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slide into his DMs

Musk subpoenas ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

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Harold Maass

The promise and peril of the Alex Jones verdict

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the panamazopticon expands

Amazon to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion

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Briefing

What's being done to stop the robocall scourge

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dislike

Instagram scaling back new format following backlash

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prime care

Amazon to purchase One Medical for $3.9B

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could have been worse!

Netflix beats expectations while still losing almost a million subscribers

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twitter v. musk

Musk's lawyers move to block Twitter request for expedited trial

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on the hook?

Elon Musk tries to back out of Twitter deal

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William Falk

The soul of a machine

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Feature

Market for mortgages dries up

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Briefing

Is Google's chatbot program self-aware?

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Bluff-calling

Twitter reportedly agrees to give Elon Musk raw data to settle bots standoff

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billions in the balance

Elon Musk threatens to drop Twitter deal

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long overdue

Apple adds edit, undo send, and mark unread features to iMessage

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taking charge

EU plans to force Apple to use same charger as other smartphones

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Green Power

Biden moves to shore up U.S. solar projects, boost domestic production

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leaning out

Sheryl Sandberg to leave Meta after 14 years

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SCOTUS

Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas social media law

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Analysis

The pros and cons of nuclear power

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backing out?

Musk says Twitter deal 'cannot move forward' without proof of number of fake accounts

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them's the rules

Trump to partially restrict Twitter use if allowed back

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Feature

Scammed by romance and Bitcoin

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Harold Maass

Could Elon Musk put Donald Trump back in the White House?

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Speed Reads

Meta disables some Instagram filters in Texas and Illinois due to facial recognition laws