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The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots

By Ray Kurzweil
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The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico

By Christopher Solomon
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

By Mark Harris
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How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI

By Samanth Subramanian
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China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend

By Hannah Zeavin
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Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

By Joseph Cox
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You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

By Steven Brill
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Don’t Think Breakdancing Is a ‘Real’ Olympic Sport? The World Champ Agrees (Kinda)

By Dexter Thomas
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Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve

By Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal
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I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty

By Brendan I. Koerner
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Meet the Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT—and Helped Set the Course for AI

By Steven Levy
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The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

By Kathy Gilsinan
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They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

By Rachel Lance
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These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

By David Kushner
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He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared

By Jenna Scatena
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‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’

By Virginia Heffernan
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism

By Leif Wenar
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The Mayor of London Enters the Bullshit Cinematic Universe

By Peter Guest
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8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story

By Steven Levy
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Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO?

By Robert Peck and Paresh Dave
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Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Highlight Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

By Paresh Dave
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Javier Bardem Is Menacing and Thrilling in Dune: Part Two—and a Soulful Teddy Bear IRL

By Hemal Jhaveri
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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

By Byron Tau
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Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World

By Lauren Goode
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