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Is Garry Tan San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer?

The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.

By Heather Knight

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‘Cherry on the Cake’: How China Views the U.S. Crackdown on TikTok

Dan Wang, an expert on China’s technology sector, says Beijing would see a forced sale or ban of the social media platform as a propaganda coup.

By Ravi Mattu

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A New Film at SXSW Warns of the Potential Harm of Microplastics

At SXSW, a documentary traces the arc of plastics in our lives, and highlights evolving research of the potential harm of its presence in our bodies.

By Andrew Jacobs

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Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89

Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time.

By Michael S. Rosenwald

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