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Annie*, 63, never imagined she’d be dating again. ‘I had to find the confidence to re-enter the dating scene having been widowed after a 25-year marriage. This meant it was an awfully long time since

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

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

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

Was it five years ago already? THE pandemic ...