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For as long as we’ve had the internet, we’ve been using it to celebrate the holidays. If you’re an elder millennial or Gen Xer, you probably still remember the early rituals well: sending laughably ...

Don Heider is executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. Dignity often describes the idea that every human has inherent worth and ...

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A blank square of pixels in a virtual metaverse world like The Sandbox can cost as much as a home in the real world. But investors are buying in.

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