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GRAB YOUR OLD KODAK AND SWAP YOUR SMARTPHONE FOR A BRICK: IN AN ERA OF RAPID INNOVATION, THERE’S AN ANALOGUE REBELLION BREWING. SHANNON MAHANTY INVESTIGATES THE ART OF OFFLINING

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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

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