The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful?
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Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway
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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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US Federal Aviation Administration engineers objected to Boeing’s removal of some 787 lightning protection measures
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The US Internal Revenue Service sent a letter to 3.9 million people. It saved some of their lives.
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US Federal Trade Commission weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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The Christian withdrawal experiment
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Time's Person of the Year 2019: Greta Thunberg
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Finland said it aims to teach 1% – or more than fifty million – of all Europeans basic skills in artificial intelligence through a free online course
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Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question
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The champion who picked a date to die
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Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes
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Why racists (and liberals!) keep writing for Quillette
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Megan Rapinoe: Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year
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US FDA approving drugs at breakneck speed
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For the first time in US history, a decade will pass without the country falling into a recession
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Falcon 9 cargo mission for NASA demonstrated long-duration coast required by US Air Force
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Jobs, jobs everywhere, but most of them kind of suck
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A powerful statement of resistance from a college student on trial in Moscow
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SpaceX working on fix for Starlink satellites so they don’t disrupt astronomy
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The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried that a crackdown on contraband orecchiette pasta could threaten their way of life
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Why your kid loves the garbage truck so much
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I worked for Alex Jones. I regret it
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Four dead in police shoot out after UPS truck was hijacked
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'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay
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The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers: One PlayStation can play a game, but 100 PlayStations can peer into the secrets of the universe
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Finland braced for strikes seen shaving $220 million off economy
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China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research
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Nancy Pelosi says US House of Representatives will draft impeachment charges against Donald Trump
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Tumblr’s first year without porn
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Europe gives space programs a big boost
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US Food and Drug Administration bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc
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In terms of reading test score points per hour of learning, Finnish students came out on top, followed by kids in Germany and Sweden
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Why do we tolerate Saudi money in tech?
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New York’s subway map like you’ve never seen it before
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Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years
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Hong Kong democracy slogans heard at mainland Chinese protest
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The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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Faith and Reasons: Two authors explore the persistence of religious feeling
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The intoxicating history of gin
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Spanish Big Brother made contestant 'watch her own rape'
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E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers
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I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.
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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
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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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Downtown Oakland is booming
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
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Why is childcare so expensive?
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