The art of dying
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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Amid accusations of harassment and bad business practices, Ben Judd has resigned or been removed from his positions as CEO of Dangen, VP of DDM Japan, and more
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Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
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Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death
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A detailed walkthrough of the process to determine the location shown in photographs released by Europol to help investigate child sexual abuse
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Walking 1000 km across Japan to savor the fading beauty of traditional kissaten cafes and their signature snack: pizza toast
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Learning about love and banter from Tinder, Garry Kasparov, and Turing tests
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We only hire the trendiest
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Inspired by Wikipedia and its predecessors, a new genre is emerging at the crossroads of interactive fiction and alternate reality games
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A look inside some of the facets of the world of falcon breeding, racing, and hunting
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The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
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Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all
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The inevitable decade of Marvel
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Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
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When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?
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The story of Salvador’s Banda Didá
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How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all
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Dumbass Home 2.0: Home automation without bullshit
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The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful?
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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The Christian withdrawal experiment
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What did ‘authenticity’ in food mean in 2019?
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An investigation into the theft and sale of over $50 million worth of African IP address blocks by an insider
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Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
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Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question
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The champion who picked a date to die
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Middle-class millennials aren’t leaving home
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Megan Rapinoe: Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year
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A tale of two covariates: Why OWID and company are wrong about US healthcare
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I worked for Alex Jones. I regret it
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PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world
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Chaos at the top of the world - The untold stories behind the viral photo of the deadly traffic jam at the top of Mount Everest
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America's parents want paid family leave and affordable child care. Why can't they get it?
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Paul Skalnik is a liar, a con artist and a snitch. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.
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Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
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The siege of Carrie Lam
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US FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc
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Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench?
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There’s no fire alarm for artificial general intelligence
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Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match.com — but not on Tinder, OkCupid or PlentyofFish
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The intoxicating history of gin
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Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance
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In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Adam Sandler’s everlasting shtick
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