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What Can Metaverse Builders Learn From Second Life?

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Why TIME Is Launching a New Newsletter on the Metaverse

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Russia Is Escalating Its Campaign to Control the Internet

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Zillow's Weirder Homes Can Be a Cabin Fever Cure

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Shoshana Zuboff on Building an Internet That Lets Democracy Flourish

The author discusses how we can regulate the murky world of big tech platforms

By Billy Perrigo January 22, 2021

Big Tech's Business Model Is a Threat to Democracy. Here's How to Build a Fairer Digital Future

Under President Biden, tech reform will take on a new urgency

By Billy Perrigo January 22, 2021

What Internet Speeds Should You Really Be Paying For? Here's How to Decide

Don't overpay for speed you don't need

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Terms Like ‘OK Boomer’ Are Hard to Define. This Dictionary Is Trying To Do It Anyway

Dictionaries usually wait years before writing about a new word so that its meaning has time to settle

By Katy Steinmetz February 12, 2020

Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K. Trade Documents Posted on the Site Are Linked to a Russian Information Campaign

The site said it is banning one subreddit and 61 accounts for breaking Reddit's policies

By Madeleine Carlisle December 7, 2019

The 'OK Boomer' Meme Has Officially Entered Parliamentary Record in New Zealand

Twenty-five-year-old Chlöe Swarbrick, a Green party MP in New Zealand, was delivering a speech on a Zero Carbon Bill

By Madeleine Carlisle November 6, 2019

Everyone and Their Mother Are Participating in the Endlessly Catchy Stranger Things Neverending Story Challenge

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and original Neverending Story cast are having fun

By Melissa Locker July 16, 2019

The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet

For our fifth annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME looked at contenders' impact on social media. Here’s who made this year’s list.

By TIME Staff July 16, 2019

What the Murder of Christina Grimmie by a Fan Tells Us About YouTube Influencer Culture

Christina Grimmie was a fan of talented Disney starlets like Hannah Montana who parlayed careers in children’s television into pop music. Aged 15 in 2009, Grimmie uploaded one of her first tracks to YouTube —...

By Chris Stokel-Walker May 3, 2019

Why Blocking Hate Sites Like 8chan May Only Make Them Stronger

Like the gunman who killed 50 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in March, the man who killed one person in a Poway, Calif., synagogue on April 27 announced his intentions on 8chan, an anonymous...

By Alex Krasodomski-Jones May 2, 2019
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