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Archives for December 2019

Situation: there are too many competing smart home standards

Surely a new one will fix it, right?

Dieter Bohn
Ikea 2.0: inside the furniture giant’s big bet on the smart home
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The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home?

Thomas Ricker
Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD

They scrub the internet of violent and disturbing content, and it haunts them forever

Casey Newton
Exclusive: documents show Foxconn refuses to renegotiate Wisconsin deal

Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?

Josh Dzieza
Like it or not, the Marvel empire redefined cinema this decade

Dread it, run from it — destiny arrives all the same

Julia Alexander
Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away

Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment

Zoë Schiffer
How Sony bought, and squandered, the future of gaming

PlayStation Now had the keys to the cloud gaming kingdom, but Sony barely stuck a toe in the door

Sean Hollister
The dark side of electronic waste recycling

How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal

Colin Lecher
Google’s third era

What’s next now that Sundar Pichai is CEO of Alphabet

Dieter Bohn