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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

Search Parties

Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

Amelia Tait

Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia

Second Coming

Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia

Kyle MacNeill

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

Junk Food

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

Morgan Meaker

The World’s Largest Fungus Collection May Unlock the Mysteries of Carbon Capture

What Lies Beneath

The World’s Largest Fungus Collection May Unlock the Mysteries of Carbon Capture

Matt Reynolds

WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

Rosy Outlook

WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

Emily Mullin

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Parasocial Studies

I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

Brendan I. Koerner

Sarcophagus Is a Dead Man’s Switch for Your Crypto Wallet

Tales from the Crypto

Sarcophagus Is a Dead Man’s Switch for Your Crypto Wallet

Joel Khalili

The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets

Bee Prepared

The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets

Frankie Adkins

Science Is Here to Clean Up the Wild West of Gin

Quite the Tonic

Science Is Here to Clean Up the Wild West of Gin

Eve Thomas

The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space

Out of this World

The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space

Grace Browne

The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

A Tale of Two Cities

The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

Peter Guest

JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally

Machine Readable

JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally

Sheon Han

Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That

Climate Change

Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That

Stephen Armstrong

He Helped Expose Wirecard's Fraud. Now His Startup Tries to Make Whistleblowing Safer

Whistle Stop

He Helped Expose Wirecard's Fraud. Now His Startup Tries to Make Whistleblowing Safer

Joel Khalili

A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life

Under the Sea

A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life

Stephen Armstrong

Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits

Net Zero

Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits

Stephen Armstrong

Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present

Cloud Support

Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present

Meghan O'Gieblyn

The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind

Green Mile

The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind

Stephen Armstrong

Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment

Climate Change

Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment

Stephen Armstrong

Fake Caviar Invented in the 1930s Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution

Egg-cellent

Fake Caviar Invented in the 1930s Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution

Stephen Armstrong