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

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Netflix snags former EA, Oculus exec to lead its video game efforts. Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight. Space tourism rivalry gets extremely petty ahead of Branson’s spaceflight. Foxconn and TSMC strike deal to buy 10 million COVID vaccines for Taiwan.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

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The annual awards show celebrates the wide variety of things that happen online, from websites and podcasts to design and data visualizations to video series and social media accounts, and they tend to touch on a big swath of what happened in the preceding year. Here’s the full list of winners. Special Achievement.

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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. Twitter: @euvieivanova. Location: London, UK and Ahmedabad, India. One of her core beliefs is that big enterprise has the potential to make our lives better.

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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. So that’s the debate that I had with him over net neutrality. I introduced the first net neutrality bill 15 years ago, essentially after the 1996 Telecommunications Act passed, where I was the principal Democratic author. Nothing went wrong. MK: Right.

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