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April 19, 2018: In spite of all the ink that journalists, analysts, and pundits have spilled on Uber over the years, no mainstream article has focused on what I consider to be the most elegant feature
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Photograph by Nigel Parry. Few people on Wall Street are as polarizing as Eddie Lampert, thebillionaire majority shareholder of Sears and Kmart. His friends say heis reticent, while his critics find h
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Suddenly, everything is a computer. Phones, of course, and televisions. Also toasters and door locks, baby monitors and juicers, doorbells and gas grills. Even faucets . Even garden hoses . Even fidge
Credit... Photo illustration by Sara Cwynar Feature What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas
When Mike Brown moved to Singapore in 2013 to start his new job overseeing Uber 's business in Asia, he knew the next few years would be wild and unprecedented in his career. But he couldn’t have anti
Building 111 on the Xerox engineering campus, near Rochester, New York, is vast and labyrinthine. On the social-media site Foursquare, one visitor writes that it’s “like Hotel California.” Conference
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The interior of Planet Hollywood Times Square. Of all the wretched places to visit in New York, Planet Hollywood is king. The moldering eatery’s main entryway—beneath a colossal, glitzy sign that jost
The wealth of Sapiens Posted On February 3, 2018 It’s 2am, and I’m curled up in a ball on my bathroom floor crying. I’m trying to do this without waking up my sleeping wife and daughter in the next ro
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If Silicon Valley ever formed a political party, it might look a lot like the current iteration of Germany’s Free Democrats , or FDP. In the 2017 election cycle, the FDP offered a platform that reads
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Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is someone cursed with that familiar, often painful, gift of youth—absolute certainty. She feels everything strongly, expresses her opinions loudly, and both wounds
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