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What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?

Sophie Caldwell

UP A BUCKLING flight of stairs on Murray Street in Lower Manhattan, the dusty workshop of CTL Electronics is crammed with once-novel relics: cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions, three-beam projectors and…

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Israel Prepares for Invasion by Using Phone Data to Track Gazans Fleeing

Sophie Caldwell

In a windowless control room on an army base in southern Israel, five soldiers monitored the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Gazans on a massive computer screen.The screen showed…

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Top FTX Executive Says Sam Bankman-Fried Used Customer Money for ‘Excess’ Spending

Sophie Caldwell

Nishad Singh, a former top executive at the once high-flying FTX crypto exchange, testified on Monday that his former boss, Sam Bankman-Fried, had used customer money to engage in large…

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How ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers

Sophie Caldwell

The widely used chatbot ChatGPT was designed to generate digital text, everything from poetry to term papers to computer programs. But when a team of artificial intelligence researchers at the…

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The Places That Sam Bankman-Fried Left Behind

Sophie Caldwell

Before it all collapsed last fall, the cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried was at the center of a global business empire.The 31-year-old mogul started his first company in the San Francisco…

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As Red States Curb Social Media, Did Montana’s TikTok Ban Go Too Far?

Sophie Caldwell

Many of the world’s largest consumer technology companies will be closely monitoring a federal court hearing in Montana on Thursday that could decide whether TikTok will have to stop operating…