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Warning: abundant spoilers for the first season (and speculation about the second season) of Severance follow.
The launch of “Truth Social” is the latest episode in the sorry saga of Donald Trump and social media, but one which implicates new sites…
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On the evening of November 8th 2016 I was sitting with friends in a Somerville, Massachusetts apartment feeling nervous but hopeful. For…
The slow, deliberative nature of representative democracy seems ill-suited to the present moment. Can it survive the new politics of speed?

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So that’s the end of that. After three-and-a-half years of bitter wrangling—an argument foisted on the nation, like a crying baby, after three decades…
The year is 2024, and in his final speech on the eve of the general election, standing next to his wife Carrie Symonds, Boris Johnson…
I’m coming to the end of my first year* as a PhD student at Oxford University’s Internet Institute. It has been a challenging year, in…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a “democratic deficit” — and maybe that shouldn’t be a surprise. As Jonnie Penn and others have argued…
The extraordinary new documentary Free Solo profiles lifelong climber Alex Honnold as he embarks on an unprecedented feat: scaling Yosemit
Several weeks on from the initial story breaking, we are still feeling the fallout of revelations that data gathered from unwitting…
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The striking ascent of self-driving cars, from the stuff of sci-fi to a car dealership near you, offers one of the most transformative…
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