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Why Facebook should release the Facebook Files

The company’s least-bad option might also do a lot of good

Casey Newton
Why these Facebook research scandals are different

How the company found itself in its biggest crisis since Cambridge Analytica

Casey Newton
The iPhone’s notch: should it stay or should it go?

Let’s discuss

Chaim Gartenberg and Sean Hollister
I hate the new Windows 11 taskbarI hate the new Windows 11 taskbar
Tom Warren
Revolt of the delivery workers

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. New York City’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.

Josh Dzieza
Apple and Epic both lost today

Apple stands to lose billions; Epic failed to #FreeFortnite

Sean Hollister
How Twitter’s communities could bring context back

Moderators say smaller groups are helping them block trolls and build community

Casey Newton
Mercedes-Benz reveals an electric G-Wagen concept for the future

The G-Class is going electric

Sean O'Kane
Eight things Apple could do to prove it actually cares about App Store users

Like hire more than 500 people to police an entire platform

Sean Hollister
The App Store is too big to changeThe App Store is too big to change
Chaim Gartenberg
Tim Cook’s Apple, ten years later

Looking back at a decade without Jobs — Apple’s biggest decade ever

Sean Hollister
What Twitter should copy from Tinder

You’ll likely be able to verify yourself twice on Tinder before you can do it once anywhere else

Casey Newton
Apple’s been playing it too MagSafeApple’s been playing it too MagSafe
Chaim Gartenberg
Do we see others online as human?Do we see others online as human?
Barbara Krasnoff
No adults in the room

A new lawsuit accuses Daversa of having its own internal problems with workplace harassment and mismanagement

Zoë Schiffer
Libertarians built a crypto mecca in Keene, New Hampshire — then feds tore it down

The rise and fall of a Bitcoin empire

Russell Brandom
Next Gen Favorites: Parsec

A new tool for an older kind of gaming

Isaac Espinosa
Next Gen Favorites: Wattpad

Looking beyond my local library, I found a new way to think about writing

Mirna Rodriguez
Next Gen Favorites: the half-finished Duolingo course

I am tormented by the specter of Duo the Owl

Jamal Burns