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Prabir Purkayastha

Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital media platform. He is an activist for science and the Free Software movement.

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Facebook’s business model thrives on the virality of hate

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5G is the first stage of a tech war between the U.S. and China

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This Feb. 27, 2018, photo shows a seven cubit quantum device is seen at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Conventional computers process information as a stream of bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one in the binary language of computing. But quantum bits, known as qubits, can register zero and one simultaneously. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

IBM vs. Google and the race to quantum supremacy

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This Feb. 27, 2018, photo shows a seven cubit quantum device is seen at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Conventional computers process information as a stream of bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one in the binary language of computing. But quantum bits, known as qubits, can register zero and one simultaneously. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

It’s only a matter of time before quantum computers start solving real-world problems

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A picture taken on September 15, 2019 shows an Aramco oil facility near al-Khurj area, just south of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)

Can the U.S. accept that there is a new strategic balance in the Middle East?

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A U.S. Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile

How cheap drones are shifting the strategic balance in West Asia

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The U.S. is sleepwalking into a real war with Iran

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The UK’s dubious role in the new tanker war with Iran

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Trump’s version of the Iran Accord: Heads I win, tails you lose

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, theFacebook's developer conference, May 1, 2018. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Facebucks are the last thing the world needs

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