As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place
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Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges
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Migrant workers restricted to farms under one grower’s virus lockdown
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Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal
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Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
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Last exit from autocracy
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year
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K: The overlooked variable that's driving the pandemic
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What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
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Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
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Gas companies are abandoning their wells, leaving them to leak methane forever
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Trump won’t commit to ‘peaceful’ post-election transfer of power
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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The elusive peril of space junk - Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster?
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The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level
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How to be a mystical materialist
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Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes
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My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender
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Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California
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Brazil hands out so much Covid cash that poverty nears a low
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Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years.
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Mozilla: The greatest tech company left behind
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government
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How to think like an epidemiologist
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Seeing around corners
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Sweatpants forever
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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Safety lessons from the morgue
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Why can’t we just hold classes outdoors instead?
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Do we believe in UFOs? That’s the wrong question.
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Scientists are 3D printing miniature human organs to test coronavirus drugs
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On mob justice in Nigeria
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No longer in shadows, Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public
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The great climate migration has begun
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Alone on a mountaintop, awaiting a very hard rain
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I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
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Headaches top symptom for coronavirus, but only one third have any sign of illness
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
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Sweden has become the world’s cautionary tale
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
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Do Americans understand how badly they’re doing?
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