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Too Much Power Lies in Tech Companies’ Hands

Too Much Power Lies in Tech Companies’ Hands

The Daily Stormer is finally off the internet. Well, the public internet anyway. Earlier this week, the hate-spewing white supremacist site lost its domain name registration when it was kicked off first GoDaddy and then Google for violating terms of its contracts....
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Airtight. Photographer: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images


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We are no longer entirely human.
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People look at a firework display during a New Year celebration on January 1, 2015 in Dubai. AFP PHOTO / KARIM SAHIB


Here’s What’s Going to Happen in 2017

Here’s What’s Going to Happen in 2017

Earlier this week I reviewed my predictions for 2016, many of which came true and many of which (particularly about politics) … did not. It’s time to try again. Here are a baker’s dozen of predictions for 2017, on a mix of serious subjects and light ones. I have...