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The most exciting day on the internet

For the first time in over a decade, ICANN allowed people to apply for new top-level domains—including strings like .fart. And today, it’s releasing the big list of who applied for what.

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Polymarket’s $1.9 million fiction

The prediction-market site reportedly paid content creators to show $1.9 million in fake bets that they never actually placed—claiming wins that would have been losses.

Welcome to the new Tech Brew

Something new is brewing.

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As cruise-ship internet improves, it’s a siren song for a new kind of passenger

Increased speed and reliability cater to travelers who can work from anywhere.

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Activision reaches settlement with DOJ over esports player salaries

Power (and money) to the players?

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A look at two key tech trends set into motion by the pandemic, two years on

Emerging Tech Brew readers say remote work, mRNA most important trends accelerated by pandemic.

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The r/WSB Saga: Moderation, Enforcement, Decentralization, and More

About those extraordinary market conditions and familiar parallels within the wider tech world