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The Big Story

How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple

By Noam Scheiber
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Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy

By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

By Katrina Manson
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The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone

By David Pogue
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AI Will Never Be Conscious

By Michael Pollan
The Big Story

How AI Companies Got Caught Up in US Military Efforts

By Nick Srnicek
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The Mysterious Math Behind the Brazilian Butt Lift

By Mary Roach
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The Mathematician Who Tried to Convince the Catholic Church of Two Infinities

By Jason Socrates Bardi
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How K-Pop Stans Set the Stage for the US TikTok Ban

By Emily Baker-White
Gear

Coke Designed a Plastic Bottle to Sell the World More Soda

By Saabira Chaudhuri
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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

By Seth Harp
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What Really Happened in the Aftermath of the Lizard Squad Hacks

By Joe Tidy
Business

The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI

By Karen Hao
Business

How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution

By Keach Hagey
Culture

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

By Martin Reeves and Bob Goodson
Culture

Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is

By Bonnie Tsui
Science

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

By Adam Kucharski
Culture

A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub

By Nicholas Lalla
The Big Story

The ‘Crazy Guy’ Who Bet Billions on the iPhone—3 Years Before It Existed

By Lionel Barber
Culture

Imagining a Future Where Chicagoans Get Around in Free Driverless Cars

By Nnedi Okorafor
Culture

The Aftermath of the Alligator Experiment

By Jeff VanderMeer
Culture

The Diablo IV Nobody Ever Saw

By Jason Schreier
Culture

Mapping the Marvel Universe in 6 Very Cool Charts

By Tim Leong
Culture

What Really Happened While Filming Hodor’s Fateful Game of Thrones Scene

By Kristian Nairn
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