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Welcome to Uncanny Valley—an insider look at the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Joi

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Back in March, the US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a long in the works rule requiring a

The Rise and Fall of Juul

2024/6/27

Even if you’ve never taken a puff from a vape in your life, you know about Juul. At the company’s pe

Web crawling—the act of indexing information across the internet—has been around for decades. It has

This week, Apple executives used the keynote address of the company’s annual developers conference t

Google has spent the past year lustily rolling out AI features across its platforms. But with each l

Domain names have value, even when the websites that were once hosted there are shut down or abandon

People everywhere are hot for heat pumps. These electric appliances—which perform the same heating a

Google held its annual I/O developer event this week. The company gathered software developers, busi

For all the influence Twitter has had on our culture, no community there has made quite as much impa

Back in March, the US Environmental Protection Agency finalized a long in the works rule requiring a

Do you know what TCP/IP means? (Hint: you’re using it right now.) What about CDMA? Or GPT? While the

A Chat About Airchat

2024/4/18

Silicon Valley tech types love their edgy new social media startups. The latest is Airchat, an audio

Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November el

Hey, did you see the ad for that Bluetooth-enabled Shiatsu foot massager? How about the one for the

Apple has gotten used to being a favorite target of rivals and government agencies. The company has

A 3-Body Podcast

2024/3/21

3 Body Problem is Netflix’s new big, meaty prestige sci-fi series. Based on the book of the same nam

The TikTok Ban

2024/3/14

You may only know TikTok as the massively popular social video app for phone-obsessed teens, but lat

The last few months have been rough for Google. Company executives have been in the hot seat because

Unless you were really into desktop PC gaming a decade ago, you probably didn't give Nvidia much tho

tech companies seemed immune to large-scale layoffs, and as their profits skyrocketed, those cushy j