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Collage of Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos

Is the reign of tech titans coming to an end?

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Information overload: The promise and risk of quantum computing

By Lindsay Rand, Berit Goodge | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

The Sycamore processor

Quantum supremacy: not a Jason Bourne movie

By | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Is breaking up big tech the solution to online hate or election meddling?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

Tiananmen Square.

Censorship 101: China’s young censors first have to learn about forbidden topics 

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Executive Office

A “media mirage”: Russia deployed sophisticated marketing tactics to help Trump win

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: © World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Google’s day of reckoning

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Artificial intelligence: a detailed explainer, with a human point of view

By Milton Hoenig | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Ronald Deibert: Tracking the emerging arms race in cyberspace

By | Interviews