New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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Twitter’s SMS two-factor authentication is melting down
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Scientists have discovered a new set of blood groups. The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses.
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Sofia, the historic airplane-borne telescope, lands for the last time
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A Danish city built Google into its schools – then banned it
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Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
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Investigating the mysteriously feel-good "Texas Turnaround"
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The American family that mined the Pentagon’s data for profit
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What Twitter’s move to shutter offices signals for Big Tech
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‘Supercookies’ have privacy experts sounding the alarm
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How ‘The Dress’ sparked a neuroscience breakthrough
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Researchers grew tiny plants in moon dirt collected decades ago
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Bill Gates is so over this pandemic
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Review: Balldo
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It’s not easy running a geeky business
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You should listen to CDs
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Is Firefox okay?
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The unnerving rise of video games that spy on you
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A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly in Massachusetts
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North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet.
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It's not just the Internal Revenue Service—the US government wants your selfies
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The gritty, underground network bringing Japan’s arcades to the US
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The McDonald’s ice cream machine hacking saga has a new twist
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Locked out of ‘god mode,’ runners are hacking their treadmills
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You're probably not using the web's best browser (Vivaldi)
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Remember when multiplayer gaming needed envelopes and stamps? The history of play by mail games
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The FTC votes unanimously to enforce right to repair
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Why a YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
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The untold story of the big boat that broke the world
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The story of Lee Holloway: The decline of a brilliant young coder
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The long, strange life of the world’s oldest naked mole rat
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Your grandma’s tube TV is the hottest gaming tech
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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It began as an AI-fueled dungeon game, it got much darker
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They told their therapists everything. Hackers leaked it all.
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Turns out, Spock is kinda bad at logic
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They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
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Why it's almost impossible to make a 7-10 split in bowling
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Golf is facing an existential crisis
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I called off my wedding. The internet will never forget
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A bird-feed seller beat a chess master online. Then it got ugly.
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Wikipedia is finally asking Big Tech to pay up
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Clubhouse cured my imposter syndrome
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Microdosing's feel-good benefits might just be placebo effect
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France’s new tech "repairability index" is a big deal
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Billionaires see VR as a way to avoid radical social change
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Social media platform Parler is back online with new hosting
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Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
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On the trail of the robocall king
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