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Music streaming is a tough racket, unless you're Apple ...

by Molly Wood , Shaheen Ainpour and Stephanie Hughes
Mar 21, 2018
Music licensing fees make it almost impossible to turn a profit in streaming.
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Why the biggest tech deal ever got squashed

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Mar 16, 2018
The Broadcom-Qualcomm merger didn't get very far. Here's why President Trump intervened.
Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon speaks during a press event at CES 2018 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in January in Las Vegas.
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Scott Kelly's new mission is on Earth

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Mar 8, 2018
The astronaut talks about his life and work in science.
Astronaut Scott Kelly says he's proof that someone who is “far from a genius” can become a scientist.
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Should websites be responsible for what users post online?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Mar 7, 2018
A new bill makes it easier to sue websites for illegal content their users post.
The statute that former Rep. Chris Cox wrote with Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has “worked pretty well over the last 20 years,” Cox says, but he's seen courts “stretch the rule a little bit too far.”
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China is drowning in a sea of cardboard — so is the U.S.

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes , Jennifer Pak and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 26, 2018
Online shopping comes with a lot of packaging, and that packaging is becoming a problem.
Chinese laborers load cardboard onto a truck to be recycled in the Dong Xiao Kou village in Beijing in 2014.
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Should we trust Silicon Valley to fix itself?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 23, 2018
Some tech pioneers want to repair the problems they helped create, like addictive technologies.
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Good luck watching the Winter Games in 4K

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 21, 2018
Want to see the Olympics in ultra high definition? You'll need to clear some technical hurdles, but the "sparkles are unreal," an Ars Technica reporter says.
Figure skating really shines with all the benefits of 4K, says Sam Machkovech, a writer for Ars Technica. Above, USA's Adam Rippon competes in the men's free skate event during the Pyeongchang Olympics on Feb. 17.
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Tim Armstrong: People need to vote on net neutrality

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 19, 2018
Oath is uniting AOL and Yahoo, but can it compete with today's online giants?
“The net neutrality debate has to end up in Congress,” says Oath CEO Tim Armstrong, onstage at the Makers Conference at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
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Black Twitter is a force for activism

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 16, 2018
Feminista Jones on what the social forum has accomplished.
Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the U.S.
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Stitch Fix's CEO says there should be more seats at the table, not in investors' hot tubs

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 14, 2018
Katrina Lake on sexism in Silicon Valley.
Molly Wood (left) interviewing Katrina Lake (right) of Stitch Fix at the Makers conference in Los Angeles. 
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