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Next Gen Favorites: the Alicia Keys Tiny Desk concert

Looking for the thrill of live music during lockdown, I turned to NPR

Andrea Plascencia
How Boosted went bust

An inside look at how the beloved electric skateboard startup fell apart

Sean O'Kane
Why small design decisions can matterWhy small design decisions can matter
Barbara Krasnoff
Can Polestar design a new kind of car company?

Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath wants the freedom of an auto startup with the benefits of an established player

Nilay Patel
Secretly throttling is never okaySecretly throttling is never okay
Sean Hollister
Who wins when Amazon pulls brands from its store?

Not the consumer

Dan Seifert
Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake

On the rise and fall of Gettr

Casey Newton
Microsoft needs to show Windows 11 is more than just Windows 10.5

A new version of Windows is coming today

Tom Warren
Why the tech antitrust reform bills are struggling to move forward

Republicans and Democrats are having very different conversations

Casey Newton
To succeed, cloud gaming needs to disappear

The problem with cloud gaming is you have to think about it

Sean Hollister
The airwaves of Navajo Nation

During the pandemic, two radio stations broadcast vital information about COVID-19 to remote stretches of the country’s largest Indigenous territory. But how do you reach listeners who don’t want to hear it?

Karen Fischer
India’s healthcare workers are busting misinformation on WhatsApp

The backbone of India’s rural healthcare system is now tasked with beating back COVID-19 myths, one message at a time

Sanket Jain
When does sharing become oversharing?When does sharing become oversharing?
Nylah Iqbal Muhammad
The podcasting hype house from hell

How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams

Ashley Carman
Up close with the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck

Confirmed: Ford’s first electric truck is a truck

Andrew J. Hawkins
Apple isn’t just a walled garden, it’s a carrier

The return of the Angry God of ARPU

Dieter Bohn
Where did the microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from anyway?

How an innocuous Reddit thread mutated into a dangerous, viral lie

Ike Sriskandarajah
Heat ListedHeat Listed
Matt Stroud
This is a map of America’s broadband problem

A county-by-county look at the broadband gap

Russell Brandom and William Joel
The isolation of grief in the pandemic

The pandemic separates us when we need people most

Jay Peters