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    A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus

    Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, we look at a mess of corporate drama in artificial intelligence....

    Tesla’s Pivot to China Saved Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.

    When Elon Musk unveiled the first Chinese-made Teslas in Shanghai in 2020, he went off script and started dancing. Peeling off his jacket, he...

    Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

    Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked...

    The U.S. Investors Caught in the Scrum Over TikTok

    For years, the U.S. investors who backed ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that owns TikTok, have wrestled with the complexities of owning a piece...

    The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla

    Artificial intelligence’s integration into everyday life has stirred up doubts and unsettling questions for many about humanity’s path forward. But in Anguilla, a tiny...

    With TikTok Under Fire, Brands That Rely on It Worry

    Amid debate in Washington over whether TikTok should be banned if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell it, one group is watching with particular interest:...

    The Government’s Struggles With Outsourcing Software Development

    Relative to the 496 billion Canadian dollars the federal government spent last year, the amounts are small. But this week’s revelations surrounding millions of...

    Reddit’s I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Story

    Redditors howled at these changes — and Mr. Wong’s successor as C.E.O., Ellen Pao, was chased out by a horde of angry users —...

    Kate Middleton, Britney Spears and the Online Trolls Doubting Their Existence

    Kate Middleton has long been a magnet for unproven rumors: She pressured an art gallery to remove a royal portrait! She split from her...

    What Elon Musk Said in Testy Interview on Don Lemon’s New Show

    It was raw and occasionally tense.The former television anchor Don Lemon’s wide-ranging, testy interview with Elon Musk was released online on Monday morning, touching...

    Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time

    Central Sardinia is not generally considered a hotbed of innovation: Arid and rural, some of its road signs riddled with bullet holes made by...

    Sam Bankman-Fried Should Get 40 to 50 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say

    Federal prosecutors said on Friday that Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency mogul who was convicted of masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud, should receive a prison sentence...

    TikTok Bill’s Progress Slows in the Senate

    After a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the app or face a nationwide ban sailed through the House at...

    A Looming TikTok Ban, a Royal Photoshop Mystery and Your Snitching Car

    Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban TikTok...

    What is SpaceX’s Starship? – The New York Times

    For Elon Musk, Starship is really a Mars ship. He envisions a fleet of Starships carrying settlers to the red planet in the coming...