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

The Big Story

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

Vince Beiser

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

The Big Story

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

Morgan Meaker

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

The Big Story

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

Clive Thompson

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

Climate Control

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

Amit Katwala

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

The Big Story

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

Sandra Upson

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Model Citizens

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Arthur Holland Michel

For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

The Big Interview

For the Director of Wicked, There’s No Place Like Silicon Valley

Jay Ruben Dayrit

Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia

Buckle Up

Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia

Lauren Smiley

How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

Cold Hard Cash

How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges

Nicola Twilley

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

Game Changer

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

Kelly Clancy

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

Sh-AI-kespeare

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

Laura Kipnis

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

The Big Interview

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

Steven Levy

The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots

Book Excerpt

The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots

Ray Kurzweil

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

Boosted

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

Christopher Solomon

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist Goes Meta

A Strange Loop

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist Goes Meta

Jason Kehe

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

The OceanGate Files

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

Mark Ellis Harris

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

The Big Interview

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

Samanth Subramanian

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

Crossover Event

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

Hannah Zeavin

Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

It's a trap

Inside the Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

Joseph Cox

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

The Death of Truth

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

Steven Brill