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The homeownership obsession - How buying homes became a part of the American dream—and also a nightmare
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Why do Trump’s supporters stand by him, no matter what?
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The world's most valuable company: Saudi Aramco's long awaited IPO
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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious
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Digital Foundry's Google Stadia tech review: The best game streaming yet, but far from ready
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Behind Hong Kong’s resolve: Locals’ view of a city under siege
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Against economics
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How compassion helped one woman leave an extremist group
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Magic: the Gathering - Unveiling the Mystery Booster set
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Stammer time - Stutterers reach beyond the medical model of disability
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The strange life and mysterious death of Jerrold Haas, co-founder of the educational-blockchain startup Tessr
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The great American tax haven: Why the super-rich love South Dakota
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Starlink is a very big deal
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The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether - Part 1
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Peter Thiel's religion
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Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
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Companion dog acquisition may reduce loneliness among community dog owners
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How the US betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
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The Everglades’ Wild Hope
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A new funding model for open source software
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What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
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Unified theory of evolution
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The fisherman's secret
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“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias
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It's time to break up Disney: Part one
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The Project Jengo saga: How Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll – and won
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Iceland has become the world's leading miner of digital currency – then the crypto-crooks showed up
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The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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Diagnosing the steel failure in the SF Transit Center
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Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future
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Untitled Goose Game is a funny video game about an asshole goose. Its power is in its simplicity.
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to dedicate resources to covering games. Past efforts at other publications have failed—why is this time going to be different?
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Tether: The story so far
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The iPod silhouettes
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Riding the unicorn—Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult. A business is a little more complicated.
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Certbot usability case study: Making it easier to get HTTPS certificates
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Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
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Video games in China: beyond the great firewall
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De-branding my body. The former sex slaves transforming their tattoos
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Frank Gehry's most ambitious project: Restoring the Los Angeles River
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Iron: From mythical to mundane
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My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic”
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MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
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The creative camaraderie behind Wilmot's Warehouse
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Advice for curating, refining, and developing a Spotify playlist that people will actually listen to and follow over time
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Fortnite is the future, but probably not for the reasons you think
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