A decade ago, a new spirit of tolerance of the avant garde blossomed in Russia. But these days, it’s impossible to know where the lines are—as the country’s most celebrated director discovered
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International Money Fund World Economic Outlook update - January 2020
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The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans
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Rethinking the meaning of success through the stories of Phil Campbell, co-founder of Quantic Dream and former creative director on major franchises like Tomb Raider
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The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI
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Is cannabis the answer to everything?
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Which tech company is really the most evil?
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Two gay Chinese dads. One long and winding trip to fatherhood
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Microsoft announces their plan to be carbon negative by 2030
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Free market or socialism: Have economists really anything to say?
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The story of how Microsoft's Kinect grew from a skunkworks motion-controller project into a company-wide effort with massive resources, and was eventually abandoned
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: a long-form deep dive into the complex themes and meanings behind the show
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Emotional baggage—Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment
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Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it
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Taiwan’s single-payer success story — and its lessons for America
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Yes, this meal is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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2020 Scottsdale Collectible Car Auction Preview: The million-dollar cars
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
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The bot scare
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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Learning about work ethic from my high school driving instructor
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A world without pain
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How to avoid swallowing war propaganda
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The cost of being a woman who covers video games
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The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
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In 2020, skip your resolutions—Embrace a vice
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The man who made Wolfenstein
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Inside TurboTax’s twenty-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free
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Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Lecture
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer
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The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.
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Two titles, 210 straight starts, one Eli: How Manning conquered New York
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The hiding place: Inside the world's first long-term storage facilty for highly radioactive nuclear waste
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Deep-sea mining and the race to the bottom of the ocean
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Sixteen significant gaming industry figures talk about some of the major trends and changes in gaming over the last decade
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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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