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Teaching civics 2018 style: Check the 'gram, kids

by Molly Wood
Dec 19, 2018
Newly elected politicians are giving a behind-the-scenes look at Congress, on social media.
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News is a hard business. Now add millennials and Facebook. Yikes?

by Molly Wood
Dec 19, 2018
NowThis News has to navigate a lot of platforms to reach its viewers.
The NowThis newsroom in New York City.
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Amazon's Alexa was a surprise hit, but what's its next play?

by Molly Wood
Dec 18, 2018
As its popularity increases, so do questions about privacy and security.
“We take privacy and security very seriously," Toni Reid, right, of Amazon, told Molly Wood last week at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen conference in Laguna Niguel, California.
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Are your kids at a house party? No, not the scary kind

by Molly Wood
Dec 17, 2018
The video app!
Houseparty co-founder and COO Sima Sistani
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Work like crazy, pull off the impossible, believe you're saving the world

by Molly Wood
Dec 14, 2018
A look at the last six months of drama at Tesla.
Tesla owners take a ride in the Tesla D model electric sedan in 2014 in Hawthorne, California.
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Look it up: How is a 250-year-old encyclopedia company adapting to the digital age?

by Molly Wood
Dec 13, 2018
Encyclopedia Britannica has a history of being pretty revolutionary.
Encyclopedia Britannica on the shelf at the New York Public Library in 2012.
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Sails made global shipping possible. Can they make it greener?

by Molly Wood
Dec 12, 2018
Solar panel-covered sails may be the answer.
If the shipping industry were a country, its emissions would rank sixth in the world.
Photo credit should read Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
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China's livestreaming industry is huge, lucrative and kind of dystopian

by Molly Wood
Dec 11, 2018
As more people join Chinese platform YY, a new documentary sheds light on the business.
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Researchers say wireless companies are slowing down video streams

by Molly Wood
Dec 10, 2018
The story behind bandwidth throttling.
Rally organizers carry away props following a protest outside the Federal Communication Commission building against the end of net neutrality rules Dec. 14, 2017, in Washington, D.C. 
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Self-driving cars are racing self-driving regulations to the streets

by Molly Wood
Dec 7, 2018
Who will win the race?
Waymo self-driving vehicles are displayed at the Google I/O 2018 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, in May.
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