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There will someday no longer be a great stagnation

Farhad Manjoo has me convinced: Square is a really exciting company. Square There are one of two ways to look at the digital revolution of the last few years. The first way is that it hasn’t done much...

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Aaron Swartz, American hero

Paul Graham, the founder of angel investing firm Y Combinator, has mentored generations of Silicon Valley whiz kids. In an essay about hackers and the role they’ve played driving technology forward, he...

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Derek Khanna wants you to be able to unlock your cellphone

It was November 2012 and Derek Khanna was working as a staffer in the Republican Study Committee, which acts as a kind of think tank for the conservative wing of the House Republican Conference....

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Google’s trust problem

James Fallows likes software meant to help him organize and simplify his life. So, naturally, he moved immediately to download Google Keep, the search giant’s “new app for collecting notes, photos, and...

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The problem with Twitter

In an act that could fuel 100 “how we live now” thumbsuckers, Nick Beaudrot gave up Twitter for Lent. But now Lent’s over. So is he excited to fire up the old Tweetdeck? Nope: I’m not going back to...

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WonkTalk: Ezra vs. Twitter

On Monday, I wrote a post about the problems I have in keeping up with Twitter. Twitter was not happy. In Tuesday’s WonkTalk, Brad Plumer and I talk through my unprovoked, inexplicable war on Twitter,...

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Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings?

All of the dollars. (bigstockphoto) In his fascinating New Yorker piece on the political culture of Silicon Valley, George Packer relays an irksome conversation with Dave Morin, founder of Path, that...

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Google Reader dies today. Here’s why I’m not replacing it.

Google Reader will die tonight. And I’m going to miss it terribly. But I’m not going to replace it. I’m going back to plain old bookmarks. Goodbye Google Reader. My conflicted feelings about your loss...

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Introducing our new tech policy blog, ‘The Switch’!

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Could Google Glass crash the nation’s 3G networks?

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Why Silicon Valley has been silent on the shutdown

Blissfully ignorant. Over the past couple years, Silicon Valley has sought to reverse its longstanding aversion to politics. Lobby shops for companies like Google and Facebook have ballooned, campaign...

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