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FOMO Has Never Been Worse on the Internet

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

July 13, 2023

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Google’s New Search Tool Could Eat the Internet Alive

July 11, 2023

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Google Isn’t Grad School

Arthur C. Brooks

July 6, 2023

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Push Notifications Are Out of Control

May 25, 2023

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How to Be More Creative

May 20, 2023

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Goodbye to the Dried Office Mangoes

April 26, 2023

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There’s a Good Chance You’ll Regret Quitting Your Job

March 11, 2023

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Radio Atlantic: What AI Means for Search

Charlie Warzel, Amanda Mull, A.C. Valdez, and Kevin Townsend

March 2, 2023

The Atlantic's staff writers Amanda Mull and Charlie Warzel

How Google Ran Out of Ideas

February 16, 2023

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The Supreme Court Considers the Algorithm

Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 1, 2023

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The Story of My Imposters

November 6, 2022

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Is Gmail Silencing Republicans?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 4, 2022

Your Smart Thermostat Isn’t Here to Help You

September 26, 2022

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The Internet Google Left Behind

June 21, 2022

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How a Google Employee Fell for the Eliza Effect

Brian Christian

June 21, 2022

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The Open Secret of Google Search

June 20, 2022

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Google’s AI Is Something Even Stranger Than Conscious

June 19, 2022

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Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future

June 14, 2022

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Doing Grown-Up Tasks, in Millennial Slang

January 10, 2022

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The Myth of Root Canals

November 1, 2021

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The Irony of the Google Antitrust Suit

October 21, 2020

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Boycotts Can’t Be a Test of Moral Purity

Zephyr Teachout

August 3, 2020

Google’s Totally Creepy, Totally Legal Health-Data Harvesting

November 14, 2019

I Sold Political Ads for Google. Banning Them Won’t Work.

November 6, 2019

Why Two Tech Giants Are Arguing About Quantum Computers

Kevin Hartnett and Quanta Magazine

October 24, 2019

Google CEO Sundar Pichai stands beside a quantum computer.

How an Attempt at Correcting Bias in Tech Goes Wrong

October 9, 2019

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Internet Censorship Could Happen More Than One Way

Jennifer Daskal

September 25, 2019

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The Problem With the State-Level Investigation of Google

September 24, 2019

The Google Feature Magnifying Disinformation

September 23, 2019

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The AI That Could Help Curb Youth Suicide

July 12, 2019

The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It

Alexis C. Madrigal

June 4, 2019

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