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Vergecast: the state of MagSafe, Valve’s Steam Deck, and billionaires in space

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Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight. Space tourism rivalry gets extremely petty ahead of Branson’s spaceflight. We want to see your internet bill. Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees. Facebook says FTC chair shouldn’t help decide the future of its antitrust case.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

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Webby Break the Internet Award: Swizz Beatz + Timbaland for the Verzuz battles on Instagram Live. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Net Art : 150 years of Nature by IBM Research AI - Northeastern University. Tourism & Leisure : Go Back To Africa by FCB/SIX; NATIONAL PARKS: CIVILIZATION SUCKS by GREY NEW YORK.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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She has particular knowledge of architecture and urban planning, including a PhD which applied Delphi technique to predict the impacts of introducing tourism to heritage areas. In 2008, she co-founded wabi.sabi lab , a strategic foresight company that specializes in seizing future opportunities in new media and internet culture.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

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He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. You’re connected to the internet through this image of you wearing the Jordans. So that’s the debate that I had with him over net neutrality. Net neutrality was actually baked into the personality of the internet, right? We’re a tech site.

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