Hou Yifan and the wait for chess’s first woman world champion
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Tuvix will never die
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Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole
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Ethical behaviourism and the moral risks of human-robot relationships
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How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall
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Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
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Three months in Monte Carlo
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The prison and detention camps built for Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China have enough room to detain over one million people
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First it was an Assassin's Creed expansion, now it's Ubisoft's eight year nightmare
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Sophisticated exploits used to breach fully-patched iPhones of journalists, activists, as detailed by Amnesty International's Security Lab
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The blurred lines of parasocial relationships
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The privacy war raging within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where normally-secretive tech companies are wrangling over the future of your data — and their own power — in plain sight
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The truth behind the Amazon mystery seeds
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Covid 7/15: Rates of Change
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The last time I got into an internet argument
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The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
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Common Ground, Part I: How organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
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Interview with Jonathan Rauch on epistemic disruption
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Kaspersky Password Manager had multiple problems in its password-generator, resulting in its passwords being predictable and easily brute-forced
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Kristen Roupenian’s viral story draws specific details from my own life. I’ve spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know?
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Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way
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The hook: Scene transitions in classical cinema
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Can we survive extreme heat?
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The ‘Men’s Liberation’ movement time forgot: Nowadays, the Men’s Rights movement runs the gamut from incels to red pillers, but in the 1970s, men's libbers looked something like… feminists?
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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Why Google Play’s APK replacement is scaring some security experts
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Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport
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Queer readings of The Lord of the Rings are not accidents
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The Internet Is Rotting - The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone
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Exxon lobbyist shares parts of their playbook with reporter on camera
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Kyle Rittenhouse, American vigilante: After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle
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The paradox of control
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What we learned doing fast grants
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Examining the Playstation Vita's impact a decade later
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The Sky Thief - How did Beebo Russell — a goofy, God-fearing baggage handler — steal a passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport and end up alone in a cockpit, with no plan to come down?
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History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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The story of Lee Holloway: The decline of a brilliant young coder
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Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
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What it’s like to be cancelled
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An exploration of the types of subclassing and when inheritance is a good choice compared to composition, through the lens of Python
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Electric vehicles won’t save us: Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world
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The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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The private language argument
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Rehab scam: Defendants in court-ordered rehab program made to work in chicken plants for free
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Kill the five-day workweek
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Truth and Native American epistemology
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Troubled US teens left traumatised by tough love camps
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We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.
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Gulfport police killed Leonard Parker, a Black veteran. His family waits for answers over one year later.
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At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded twenty-five others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.
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