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Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph (Sarah Manavis/New Statesman)

Sarah Manavis / New Statesman: Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph  —  On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world’s largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they’re losing their

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Study: ~180 online-only, open-access science, social sciences, and humanities journals have disappeared in the last 20 years and their content wasn't preserved (Jeffrey Brainard/Science)

Jeffrey Brainard / Science: Study: ~180 online-only, open-access science, social sciences, and humanities journals have disappeared in the last 20 years and their content wasn’t preserved  —  Eighty-four online-only, open-access (OA) journals in the sciences, and nearly 100 more in the social sciences and humanities … Study: ~180 online-only, open-access science, social sciences, and humanities

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How CRISPR is tackling the troubling immune response that’s plagued gene therapy until now

One of the major challenges facing gene therapy — a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with healthy ones — is that it is difficult to safely deliver therapeutic genes to patients without the immune system destroying the gene, and the vehicle carrying it, which can trigger life-threatening widespread inflammation. Three

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Q&A with M. G. Siegler on Apple's identity and future direction, its rivalry with Facebook and battle with Epic, the 30% cut policy, and on life as a VC (Alex Kantrowitz/OneZero )

Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : Q&A with M. G. Siegler on Apple’s identity and future direction, its rivalry with Facebook and battle with Epic, the 30% cut policy, and on life as a VC  —  Apple’s identity, the Epic Games beef, and brewing competition with Facebook … For years, Apple had a clear identity: It was

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Q&A: FCC's Rosenworcel on why current Section 230 review at FCC is corrupt, FTC's role under its Section 5, and Pai's excuses for not closing the "homework gap" (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: Q&A: FCC’s Rosenworcel on why current Section 230 review at FCC is corrupt, FTC’s role under its Section 5, and Pai’s excuses for not closing the “homework gap”  —  She can’t talk about taking the position.  But right now, she’s very focused on Trump’s Section 230 executive order … Q&A: FCC's

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How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company's strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny (Rob Copeland/Wall Street Journal)

Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company’s strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny  —  The low-key chief is contending with possible antitrust lawsuits, a revenue drop and pressure to take the company in new directions How Sundar

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