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The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba

THE U.S. FORTUNE 500 IS COMING OFF A BANNER YEAR, AND ITS RANKS HAVE SELDOM BEEN MORE STABLE. BUT U.S. CEOS FEEL ANYTHING BUT COMFORTABLE.

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Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

Driving change MY FIRST WAYMO IS LOCKED IN A STANDOFF with a human rival. I’ve hailed the driverless cab in a tricky triangular parking lot in Austin, and when it pulls in—a hulking white all-electric

Trend-setting health tech In a stressful period in 2021, Tom Hale was having trouble sleeping. He bought an Oura Ring, the pioneering smart device that tracks stats about sleep and health, and made a