Can Works Like 'Don't Look Up' Get Us Out of Our Heads?

In the doomsday smash and Bo Burnham’s pandemic musical “Inside,” themes of climate change, digital distraction and inequality merge and hit home.

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Biden Looks to Intel’s U.S. Investment to Buoy His China Agenda

The president said passage of a China competition bill was needed “for the sake of our economic competitiveness and our national security.”

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Google Asks Court to Dismiss Texas Antitrust Case

The effort is the first time the tech giant has tried to get a government case against it tossed out.

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Augmented Reality Theater Takes a Bow. In Your Kitchen.

The Immersive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers’ homes. It’s one of several high-tech British projects pushing dramatic boundaries.

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Why Microsoft Wants Activision

Activision has a lot of popular games that fit into Microsoft’s plans to build a vast library of titles that can be played on all sorts of devices. The metaverse can wait.

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Facebook’s Unglamorous Mistakes

Facebook’s little mistakes have big consequences, too. (But only for us.)

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How 5G Clashed With an Aviation Device Invented in the 1920s

The potential for interference between 5G signals and the radio altimeters long used by pilots has divided the telecom and aviation industries.

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Efforts to Rein in Big Tech May Be Running Out of Time

With midterm elections approaching, a vote expected on Thursday could be the first of several that Congress takes on bills aimed at the industry.

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What to Wear in the Metaverse

Dressing for a virtual world is going to be both enormously liberating and potentially very, very messy.

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In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge

Tracking the virus in wastewater is helping some cities and hospitals respond to the most recent wave of the coronavirus, but a more coordinated national effort is needed, experts say.

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