Suckers list: How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders in the US
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Warframe Revised (update 27.2.0) - Massive number of updates to game systems and quality-of-life changes, live now on PC
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The invisible city: How a homeless man built a life underground
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A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health
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The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas
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South Korea is composting its way to sustainability with automated bins, rooftop farms, and underground mushroom-growing
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Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate, and teenage boys are especially vulnerable
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Planet plastic - How big oil and big soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades
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Censored contagion - How information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media
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The awakening of Norman Rockwell
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The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
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Three cheers for socialism - Christian love and political practice
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Nihilism
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Progressives' foreign policy dillemma
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The untold story of the world's biggest diamond heist
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Social contagion: How China's rapid development created the conditions for an epidemic
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There’s an entire industry dedicated to making foods crispy
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Derek Murphy investigates marathon runners whose times seem suspicious, which led him to the case of a seventy-year-old doctor named Frank Meza
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To rein in traffic-snarling new mobility modes, LA needed digital savvy. Then came a privacy uproar, a murky cast of consultants, and a legal crusade by Uber.
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You’re likely to get the COVID-19 coronavirus
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Lawsuits, mountains of unsold leggings, and families drowning in debt: The tumultuous story behind LuLaRoe, a multilevel marketing brand that promised millennial women a pathway to financial freedom
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Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
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A new book by Greta Thunberg's mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter's transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon
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What is space? It’s not what you think.
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Myst (or, the drawbacks to success)
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America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill
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Hacking diabetes - A network of amateur programmers is transforming the illness with a DIY app
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The design challenges of Children of Morta
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Suspicious discontinuities
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Bernie Sanders probably has a support ceiling, but there are still several ways he could win the nomination
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Blood and soil in Narendra Modi's India
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Inside the Pentagon's secret UFO program
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The outsize, oft-ignored legacy of the original Dragon Quest
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The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
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An overview of the technology behind self-driving cars and some of the issues and concerns that are slowing down their development
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A group of agents rose through the ranks to lead the US Border Patrol, and now they’re retiring and leaving it in crisis
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The woman shaking up the diamond industry
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How I learned french in twelve months
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Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements
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The nuclear family was a mistake
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Security researchers partner with Chrome to take down over 500 browser extensions in a fraud network affecting 1.7 million users
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The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled?
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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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Modesty means more, not less
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A two-year investigation of the ties between a network of deceptive dating sites and Firefly Aerospace, a company selected by NASA for bidding on lunar payloads
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SpaceX is taking over the tiny village of Boca Chica
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Love and Lhotse - Driven by loss, two of the world’s best mountaineers, Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison, set out to make history skiing in the shadow of Mount Everest
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Kirk Drift: "Womanizer" Captain Kirk and false memories of pop culture
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The CIA secretly bought a company that sold encryption devices across the world. Then its spies sat back and listened
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Costco capitalism
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