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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Americans should feel angry about companies harvesting every morsel of our data to sell us sneakers or rate our creditworthiness. But a data…

The Myanmar soldiers descended before dawn on Feb. 1, bearing rifles and wire cutters. At gunpoint, they ordered technicians at telecom operators to switch off the internet. For good measure, the soldiers snipped wires without knowing what…

Unlike many future novelists, Ishiguro didn’t spend his teenage years inhaling the canon. He spent them listening to music and making music of his own. In 1968, he bought his first Bob Dylan album, “John Wesley Harding,” and worked backward…