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Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He’s Surprised by the Results

By Garrett M. Graff
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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

By Andy Greenberg
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The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It

By Vince Beiser
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She’s the New Face of Climate Activism—and She’s Carrying a Pickax

By Morgan Meaker
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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It’s Loony

By Clive Thompson
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The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

By Amit Katwala
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How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World

By Sandra Upson
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The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

By Arthur Holland Michel
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For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

By Jay Ruben Dayrit
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Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia

By Lauren Smiley
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How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

By Nicola Twilley
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SimCity Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land

By Kelly Clancy
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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again

By Laura Kipnis
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If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud

By Steven Levy
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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 Ellis 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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