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Business/tech columnist, NYT. Contributor, NYT Mag. Soyface bugman. kevin.roose@nytimes.com

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    3 hours ago

    1. Apparently I don't know how to thread, so here goes my second attempt at blasting you with critical news on this "Intel Chip problem" which is not an Intel problem but an entire chipmaker design problem that affects virtually all processors on the market.

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    Jan 2

    "We stuck a smartphone in every 14-year-old’s hand and told them it could make them famous. Little wonder that the kids who won that lottery don’t know when to turn the camera off."

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  3. Jan 2

    Watching adults learn about Logan Paul is like seeing Mt. Everest base campers leave for the summit with a windbreaker and a granola bar.

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  4. 28 Dec 2017

    A friend challenged me to write about some tech developments I actually liked in 2017. So here’s my list.

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    21 Dec 2017

    The price of bitcoin is fluctuating so wildly, the NYT had to put a dynamic price in its story. The number in the story changes as the price changes.

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    21 Dec 2017

    sign of the times: Long Island Iced Tea Corp. to rebrand as “Long Blockchain Corp.”

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    20 Dec 2017

    An emerging genre I've been enjoying is "stewards of capital realizing they're labor"

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  8. 20 Dec 2017

    Subjects I will read an infinite number of stories on: — Facebook — CRISPR — Jake Paulers — Fyre Festival — the Koch shirt boy

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  9. 20 Dec 2017

    Isn't giving users control of the content they see (by encoding their preferences in News Feed) the entire problem?

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  10. 19 Dec 2017

    Struggling to think of another company so powerful that it feels compelled to preemptively say it won't use the thing it built.

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  11. 19 Dec 2017

    The Winklevii owning us all is hitting me way harder than the alien alloys.

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    19 Dec 2017

    Face recognition tech is powerful enough now that Facebook can effectively look for your face in all the photos uploaded to the network, except if you’re a European or Canadian:

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    19 Dec 2017

    How a Culture of Harassment Persisted on Ford’s Factory Floors

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  14. 18 Dec 2017

    CAKE NEWS

    The knows good cake.
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  15. 18 Dec 2017

    I thought the Instant Pot was post-politics but I am now in a thread with and so idk man

    Replying to @TrumpTheWiener @DumbocratsSuck and 2 others
    Hey , do you even own an electric pressure cooker or do they cost a year's salary in your country and out of your budget?
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    18 Dec 2017

    Send dunes

    British cops want to use AI to spot porn—but it keeps mistaking desert pics for nudes
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    18 Dec 2017

    Ted Chiang, who is a genius, makes a great point in this piece: we should be more afraid of our current capitalist overlords than our future computer overlords

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  18. 18 Dec 2017

    I also wrote a Times Insider sidebar on my own Instant Pot obsession, and BEETS.

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  19. 18 Dec 2017

    I have *never* seen anyone stan for a gadget as hard as Instant Pot fans. One Pothead already sent me a poem today.

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  20. 18 Dec 2017

    2017’s biggest hardware success story isn’t the iPhone X, it’s the Instant Pot — an electric multicooker that is taking over the world. I went to the company’s Canadian HQ and wrote this:

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