The intoxicating history of gin
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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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Adam Sandler’s everlasting shtick
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Why is childcare so expensive?
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A falling rocket booster just completely flattened a building in China
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China tried to plant its candidate in Australian Federal Parliament, authorities believe
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Nine secrets I never knew about airports until I worked at LAX
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Michael Bloomberg joins 2020 Democratic field for US President
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Would-be Chinese defector details covert campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Cancel culture" has always existed - for the powerful, at least - now social media has democratized it
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Inside Apple’s iPhone software shakeup after buggy iOS 13 debut
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Joe Biden's verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter
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Bolivia is consumed by a debate over whether President Morales was ousted in a coup, as he and his loyalists allege, or in a democratic uprising against his misrule
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How bison create the spring : Indigenous groups are leading efforts to reintroduce free-roaming buffalo throughout their lands
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The ordinary investors aren’t real
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How activists are getting around Iran’s internet blackout
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Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up
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Why the trolls booed at Don Jr.’s event
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Money stuff: You can’t just call loans options
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SoftBank poured $100 billion into start-ups that use armies of contractors, upending the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world
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How scientists got climate change so wrong
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The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations
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Smart TVs collect data for political-advertising use
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Far from the spotlight, a Boeing partner feels the heat
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Airbnb to verify all listings, CEO Brian Chesky says
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I got access to my secret consumer score. Now you can get yours, too.
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Those people we tried to cancel? They’re all hanging out together
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Photographing Hong Kong urban battleground
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Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
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‘OK boomer’ marks the end of friendly generational relations
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Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks
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Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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Why palladium is suddenly a more precious metal
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Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate change
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The global protest wave, explained
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Jayson from Vegas flies in for final hike up 'symbol of all Australia'
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I just took the world’s first twenty hour flight. Here’s what it did to me.
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The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000
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Portrait of an inessential US government worker
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In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
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The complicated ethics of Tesla's Autopilot - It could save the lives of millions, but it will kill some people first
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A photographer at the ends of the Earth - Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places
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China is usually strategic and savvy. Why does it seem so upset about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
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A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions
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Why you never see your friends anymore
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Twelve hours. Four Syrian hospitals bombed. One culprit: Russia.
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Meet the satellites that can pinpoint methane and carbon dioxide leaks
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
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