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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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Learning about work ethic from my high school driving instructor
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A world without pain
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The cost of being a woman who covers video games
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The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism
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In 2020, skip your resolutions—Embrace a vice
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The man who made Wolfenstein
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Inside TurboTax’s twenty-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free
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Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Lecture
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure
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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer
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The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.
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Two titles, 210 straight starts, one Eli: How Manning conquered New York
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The hiding place: Inside the world's first long-term storage facilty for highly radioactive nuclear waste
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Sort by controversial
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Deep-sea mining and the race to the bottom of the ocean
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Sixteen significant gaming industry figures talk about some of the major trends and changes in gaming over the last decade
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Snow machines and fleece blankets: Inside the ski industry's battle with climate change
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The art of dying
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One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster.
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Amid accusations of harassment and bad business practices, Ben Judd has resigned or been removed from his positions as CEO of Dangen, VP of DDM Japan, and more
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Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
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Ponzi schemes, private yachts, and a missing $250 million in crypto: The strange tale of Quadriga and its founder's mysterious death
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A detailed walkthrough of the process to determine the location shown in photographs released by Europol to help investigate child sexual abuse
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Walking 1000 km across Japan to savor the fading beauty of traditional kissaten cafes and their signature snack: pizza toast
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Learning about love and banter from Tinder, Garry Kasparov, and Turing tests
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We only hire the trendiest
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Inspired by Wikipedia and its predecessors, a new genre is emerging at the crossroads of interactive fiction and alternate reality games
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A look inside some of the facets of the world of falcon breeding, racing, and hunting
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The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
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Examination of US Fortune 500 companies' 2018 filings shows that many paid a low effective federal tax rate in 2018, including ninety-one that paid no federal taxes at all
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The inevitable decade of Marvel
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Prime leverage: How Amazon wields power in the technology world
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When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?
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The story of Salvador’s Banda Didá
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How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all
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Dumbass Home 2.0: Home automation without bullshit
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The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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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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The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
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The Christian withdrawal experiment
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What did ‘authenticity’ in food mean in 2019?
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An investigation into the theft and sale of over $50 million worth of African IP address blocks by an insider
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Venturing a perspective on the drug pricing debate
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Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question
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