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The Secret Origins of Amazon’s Alexa

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The Secret Origins of Amazon’s Alexa

Brad Stone

The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web

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The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web

Suzanne Simard

Everything You’ve Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong

Nothing's Sacred

Everything You’ve Heard About Section 230 Is Wrong

Gilad Edelman

The fight for quiet in a world full of noise pollution

The fight for quiet in a world full of noise pollution

Tom Ward

A Brief History of Transformers (Not the Robot Kind)

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A Brief History of Transformers (Not the Robot Kind)

Vaclav Smil

They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All

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They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All

William Ralston

How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain

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How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain

Adam Rogers

The quest to make genuinely cheesy animal-free cheese

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The quest to make genuinely cheesy animal-free cheese

Jimi Famurewa

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War

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They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War

Andy Greenberg

Robots are animals, not humans

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Robots are animals, not humans

Kate Darling

Here’s What It Takes to Fly a Drone on Mount Everest

Search and Rescue

Here’s What It Takes to Fly a Drone on Mount Everest

Mark Synnott

How to Survive a Killer Asteroid

Good Luck

How to Survive a Killer Asteroid

Cody Cassidy

I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget

Something Blue

I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget

Lauren Goode

We’ve got carbon capture all wrong

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We’ve got carbon capture all wrong

Bianca Nogrady

Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1

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Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1

Amit Katwala

A dying child, a mother’s love and the drug that changed medicine

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A dying child, a mother’s love and the drug that changed medicine

James Temperton

A Boy, His Brain, and a Decades-Long Medical Controversy

Kids in Limbo

A Boy, His Brain, and a Decades-Long Medical Controversy

Seema Yasmin

Geothermal energy could save the planet. But watch for earthquakes

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Geothermal energy could save the planet. But watch for earthquakes

Sarah Freeman

How Audio Pros ‘Upmix’ Vintage Tracks and Give Them New Life

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How Audio Pros ‘Upmix’ Vintage Tracks and Give Them New Life

Jesse Jarnow

The Buzzy, Chatty, Out-of-Control Rise of Clubhouse

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The Buzzy, Chatty, Out-of-Control Rise of Clubhouse

Steven Levy