Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R's for the internet age Stars via shutterstock.com Christopher Brinton, Princeton University and Mung Chiang, Princeton University This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on...

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Email isn't dead – and it's helping to keep newspapers alive Kaspars Grinvalds Andrew Jack, University of Oxford Just over a year ago, Stewart Butterfield – who invented the rapidly growing message app Slack – joined the list of prophets declaring that email was dead...

Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R's for the internet age Stars via shutterstock.com Christopher Brinton, Princeton University and Mung Chiang, Princeton University This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on...