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What's Next for Instagram's Kevin Systrom? Flying Lessons Oct 16, 2018

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Kevin Systrom doesn’t know what’s next, but he’s starting by learning to fly. Three weeks after he and his Instagram cofounder Mike Krieger abruptly left the Facebook-owned company—and three days since his first solo flight—Systrom says he’s taking time to think about what problem he wants to attack next.

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Glen Weyl on Technology and Social Innovation Oct 15, 2018

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Social movements have spurred major transformations in society, from the end of slavery to universal suffrage, the rise of labor unions, and universal education. Yet somehow after decades of economic stability, we began to rely on technological rather than social tools to remake the world, says Glen Weyl, a principal researcher for Microsoft. While technology flourished, we “did not allow our social wisdom and social infrastructure to balance that out,” says Weyl.

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Help WIRED Track How Political Ads Target You on Facebook Oct 15, 2018

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With a user base of more than 2 billion people who can be chopped and sorted by almost any conceivable data point—men ages 21 to 45 living in the United States who are parents to preteens and like Fortnite; women with a bachelor’s degree who are away from family and whose friends are recently engaged—Facebook advertising is an incredibly powerful tool.

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Microsoft Calls a Truce in the Linux Patent Wars Oct 12, 2018

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Microsoft wants to make peace with Linux, saying this week that it will allow more than 2,600 other companies, including longtime rivals like Google and IBM, to use the technology behind 60,000 Microsoft patents for their own Linux-related open source projects. That could be good news for makers of "internet of Things" devices.

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What Does a Fair Algorithm Actually Look Like? Oct 12, 2018

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IBM Joins Fight Over Pentagon Cloud Contract Favoring Amazon Oct 11, 2018

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Google Duplex, the Human-Sounding Phone Bot, Comes to the Pixel Oct 10, 2018

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Can the FCC Really Block California's Net Neutrality Law? Oct 09, 2018

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Within hours of California governor Jerry Brown signing a sweeping net neutrality bill into law, the US Department of Justice sued the state, sparking the latest battle in the long legal war over the ground rules for the internet. Groups representing broadband providers followed suit on Wednesday, with their own lawsuit arguing that California's law was illegal.

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After Troubles in Myanmar, Facebook Charges Ahead in Africa Oct 08, 2018

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Over the past year, Facebook has faced a reckoning over the way its plan to connect the next billion users to the internet has sown division, including spreading hate speech that incited ethnic violence in Myanmar and disseminating propaganda for a violent dictator in the Philippines.

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Some Amazon Workers Fear They’ll Earn Less Even With a $15 Minimum Wage Oct 08, 2018

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When Amazon announced Tuesday that it was raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees, even vocal critics of its labor practices like Senator Bernie Sanders praised the company. The retail giant’s decision will undoubtedly put more money into the hands of its workers—especially the some 100,000 temporary US employees Amazon plans to hire in the coming months for the holiday season.

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