The co-founder of Snopes wrote dozens of plagiarized articles for the fact-checking site
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How life improved since 1990
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The rocks and minerals of Minecraft
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LeMessurier Stands Tall - A Case Study in Professional Ethics
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How tech loses out over at companies, countries and continents
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History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure
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Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
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Blizzard turned game developers into rock stars. Misbehavior followed
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Tunnels are our transportation future
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AI has the worst superpower… medical racism
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Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media?
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Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
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Nesting as prepping
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How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon (and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process)
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Whitney Houston, American girl: Why America embraced Whitney Houston, and how it destroyed her
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An interview with air-quality specialist Sarah Coefield about wildfire smoke, ventilation, long-term effects on health, and more
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Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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Kevin Smith made Netflix’s ‘Masters of the Universe: Revelation’ specifically to please ‘He-Man’ fans. Some got mad anyway
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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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