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Photo illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Will future historians look back and declare 2022 the year when Donald Trump’s spell finally started to… Read More »Why Trump’s reign of Republican terror is really coming to an end
In other words, there’s going to be a lot of chatter about the metaverse and virtual (augmented, mixed, whatever-you-want-dorky-looking) goggles in 2023, but it still… Read More »The technology that will invade our lives in 2023
Los Angeles executives at Daring Foods had a rough summer. The company, which makes plant-based chicken, had grown 250 percent in its second year and… Read More »The hottest place to network is an ice bath
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“Our job is to select, acquire, describe, make accessible and disseminate preserved knowledge,” Drabinski added. “That’s the whole project. So if technology changes the way… Read More »Librarians meet younger readers where they are: TikTok
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