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The TikTok-Oracle deal would set two dangerous precedents
Enlarge (credit: Sam Whitney | Getty Images) In August 2020, President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell executive order banning TikTok in the United States. Since then, as TikTok has competed against other Big Tech companies—growing among teen users while Facebook and others have struggled—its ability to survive in the United States has remained under a […]
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How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town?
Enlarge / The Amazon Fulfilment Centre on November 24, 2021 in Rugeley, England. (credit: Nathan Stirk | Getty Images) Avril John was nine years old when she overheard a conversation in a train station that would stick in her memory. She and her family were on their way from Northumberland in the north of England […]