Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983. But she wasn't prepared for what she'd find there. A top student in southwestern Connecticut, she studied hard but socialized little. She was raised Catholic and had a sheltered upbringing. In…

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It's fun, and increasingly fashionable, to complain about technology. Our own devices distract us, others' devices spy on us, social media companies poison public discourse, new wired objects violate our privacy, and all of this contributes to a…

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It is hard to defend soliciting donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, has been trying. Mr. Lessig is a friend of Joichi Ito, who resigned as the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, as…

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Saudi Aramco contained fires that broke out in two facilities in Abqaiq and Hijra Khurais after they were targeted by drones, official news agency SPA reports, citing an unidentified spokesman from the interior ministry. Origins of the fire are…

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Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn't yet announced. The new U1 chip—introduced with the iPhone 11 but never mentioned on stage at Tuesday's iPhone…

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