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Pity the writer who believes they have written the next Cloud Atlas! A literary agent once told me that when a fledgling writer compares their novel to David Mitchell’s, he invariably knows it will be

Dusting ‘Em Off is a rotating, free-form feature that revisits a classic album, film, or moment in pop-culture history. This week, Clint Worthington returns to the often-cited 2006 cult film Idiocracy

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The first thing you notice when walking into the middle-school classrooms at Brilla, a charter-school network in the South Bronx, is the sense of calm. No phones are out. The students are quiet—not in

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This week at Cloud Next, we’re sharing a number of Google Workspace updates to help teams get more out of the tools they rely on every day. Here are five to check out, from existing feature improvemen

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I don't remember exactly when it happened for me, but the thought arose with surprising clarity: something is deeply wrong with the United States, and I don't want to live here anymore. When I tell pe

It was impossible to miss the leading message at yesterday’s Google Cloud Next keynote: Google has the best infrastructure for AI. This was CEO Sundar Pichai in his video greeting: I want to highlight

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