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- Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin https://backchannel.com/the-language-that-stole-android-developers-hearts-807fdbf07c2a 218 comments
- Regaining control of your attention https://backchannel.com/how-i-got-my-attention-back-c7fc9297d347#.3j04ooh2p 125 comments
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#.qon6dfqdq 2 comments
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#---199-286.jihd0r4lo 67 comments
- Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking https://backchannel.com/be-healthy-or-else-how-corporations-became-obsessed-with-fitness-tracking-b0c019faff8d#.wes4gmn96 169 comments
- Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World https://backchannel.com/aaron-swartzs-theory-on-how-to-save-the-world-b3401bf79d99#.1s4ngfa0s 23 comments
- The iPhone Is Bigger Than Donald Trump https://backchannel.com/the-iphone-is-bigger-than-donald-trump-4be61d9f3ce0#.ila5kmbr1 4 comments
- According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem https://backchannel.com/according-to-snopes-fake-news-is-not-the-problem-4ca4852b1ff0#.6sx16urid 122 comments
- Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’ https://backchannel.com/our-world-is-going-full-black-mirror-946212a98184#.5qhncp8nz 182 comments
- How Stephen Wolfram Figured Out Interstellar Travel in One Night https://backchannel.com/i-had-one-night-to-invent-interstellar-travel-b2466882ef5c#.xy5as4r0d 8 comments
- The GOP Arcade is producing tiny, raw, irreverent games based on the news https://backchannel.com/the-news-is-now-literally-a-video-game-46a439c5fdef#.79xfx2b08 3 comments
- The Physicist Who Sees Crime Networks https://backchannel.com/the-physicist-who-sees-crime-networks 2 comments
- Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution https://backchannel.com/computational-law-symbolic-discourse-and-the-ai-constitution-d8528ee27bf0 65 comments
- Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech https://backchannel.com/melinda-gates-has-a-new-mission-women-in-tech-8eb706d0a903#.o4p0eghbt 81 comments
- How One Little Cable Company Exposed Telecom’s Achilles’ Heel https://backchannel.com/how-one-little-cable-company-exposed-telecoms-achilles-heel-480e49b648bf?mbid=synd_digg 7 comments technology
- The Myth of a Superhuman AI – Backchannel https://backchannel.com/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai-59282b686c62 8 comments philosophy
- Ajit Pai Is Siding With the Oligarchy — and Misleading Trump’s Base https://backchannel.com/how-ajit-pais-plan-threatens-small-town-america-c63fbd535160 15 comments technology
- The FCC Is Leading Us Toward Catastrophe. Chairman Pai is trusting cable and telcos to do the right thing. Bad news for anyone who wants accessible internet. https://backchannel.com/the-fcc-is-leading-us-toward-catastrophe-603cdb3dfe11 35 comments technology
- Whatever Happened To Google’s Grand Plan To Make Every Book Ever Searchable? https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d?mc_cid=056e12a58e&gi=cb4adae8987 11 comments technology
- Now We Know Why Microsoft Bought LinkedIn https://backchannel.com/now-we-know-why-microsoft-bought-linkedin-dad742b3dd87#.c0u2xh50b 6 comments technology
- Anonymous apps like Secret and Yik Yak Here’s why they failed. https://backchannel.com/these-failed-apps-discovered-a-hidden-rule-of-the-web-391471ca5952#.wdp4ti5d2 4 comments ethereum
- The Face of Terrorism Wants His Life Back https://backchannel.com/the-face-of-terrorism-wants-his-life-back-c95cadf49aee#.dnl45dmr0 3 comments indepthstories
- Disabled and Elderly living amazing lives with Second Life https://backchannel.com/first-they-got-sick-then-they-moved-into-a-virtual-utopia-1dc6c165f3e9#.7w95cmoj9 5 comments technology
- RANKED: These will be the 32 most powerful economies in 2030 https://backchannel.com/one-womans-brilliant-fuck-you-to-wikipedia-trolls-aab4107d374b#.ecdra6jb9 3 comments indepthstories
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse: How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company’s cash and nearly left it for dead. https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#.307bseac8 3 comments technology
- How Netflix Lost Big to Amazon in India https://backchannel.com/amazon-is-out-punching-netflix-in-the-worlds-most-important-market-india-1faf3f4a067c?gi=3b27ce6b517f 5 comments india
- The Inside Story of BitTorrent’s Bizarre Collapse https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7 4 comments indepthstories
- Phil Schiller on iPhone’s Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years https://backchannel.com/phil-schiller-on-iphones-launch-how-it-changed-apple-and-why-it-will-keep-going-for-50-years-e4412ad2c8f5#.id68jj8bw 326 comments apple
- India Just Flew Past Us in the Race to E-Cash https://backchannel.com/india-just-flew-past-us-in-the-race-to-e-cash-47eb404ce0df 34 comments technology
- Tech CEOs’ Nightmare: A President Totally at Odds With Their Values https://backchannel.com/tech-ceos-nightmare-a-president-totally-at-odds-with-their-values-20dd7b01e037#.qsrhvsics 8 comments politics
- How the Web Became Unreadable https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6 83 comments webdev
- How the Web Became Unreadable https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#.v71vscle6 3 comments web_design
- Microsoft Weaponizes Minecraft in the War Over Classrooms https://backchannel.com/microsoft-weaponizes-minecraft-in-the-war-over-classrooms-69e2bf3174f3#.fk31lywvs 3 comments microsoft
- An Exclusive Look at How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple https://backchannel.com/an-exclusive-look-at-how-ai-and-machine-learning-work-at-apple-8dbfb131932b#.s9khnnsqh 40 comments apple
- “I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body” https://backchannel.com/i-want-to-know-what-code-is-running-inside-my-body-ff9a159da34b?gi=37d36ebcf390#.gait3xuzi 3 comments opensource
- “I Want to Know What Code Is Running Inside My Body” https://backchannel.com/i-want-to-know-what-code-is-running-inside-my-body-ff9a159da34b#.gait3xuzi 493 comments programming
- How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company https://backchannel.com/how-google-is-remaking-itself-as-a-machine-learning-first-company-ada63defcb70#.pil3ro1ve 5 comments artificial
- The Uncanny Mind That Built Ethereum https://backchannel.com/the-uncanny-mind-that-built-ethereum-9b448dc9d14f 25 comments ethereum
- Who Was Ramanujan? https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665?source=linkshare-1b4595cbd64d-1461823459&gi=6af0d67a9d94 3 comments india
- The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS https://backchannel.com/the-law-is-clear-the-fbi-cannot-make-apple-rewrite-its-os-9ae60c3bbc7b 9 comments apple